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are there modern motherboards with ISA slots for *AMD* processors?
Dan Lenski wrote:
And that's it... basically only one vendor, and only one processor family supported. I haven't found any others that support AMD processors at all. No Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/F. Does anyone know of any motherboards for modern AMD processors that have ISA slots? Is there any technical impediment to producing one... such as lack of chipset support? I'd say no, there may not be a technical impediment to building one, just a marketing impediment. Since AMD's marketshare is smaller than Intel's, the diversity in motherboard featureset is smaller too. Yousuf Khan |
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are there modern motherboards with ISA slots for *AMD* processors?
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:33:58 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Dan Lenski wrote: And that's it... basically only one vendor, and only one processor family supported. I haven't found any others that support AMD processors at all. No Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/F. Does anyone know of any motherboards for modern AMD processors that have ISA slots? Is there any technical impediment to producing one... such as lack of chipset support? I'd say no, there may not be a technical impediment to building one, just a marketing impediment. Since AMD's marketshare is smaller than Intel's, the diversity in motherboard featureset is smaller too. Yousuf Khan Well, ok, but what difference does it make when the demand is virtually zero? Cheers |
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are there modern motherboards with ISA slots for *AMD* processors?
daytripper wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:33:58 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote: I'd say no, there may not be a technical impediment to building one, just a marketing impediment. Since AMD's marketshare is smaller than Intel's, the diversity in motherboard featureset is smaller too. Yousuf Khan Well, ok, but what difference does it make when the demand is virtually zero? Cheers Well, that's exactly the point, when the demand is nearly zero, the demand is closer to zero for AMD boards than it would be for Intel boards. Yousuf Khan |
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are there modern motherboards with ISA slots for *AMD*processors?
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:31:23 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Well, that's exactly the point, when the demand is nearly zero, the demand is closer to zero for AMD boards than it would be for Intel boards. Yousuf Khan That's true... and back in the dinosaur days when ISA slots were prevalent, Intel was the only serious game in town for x86 processors. Now, AMD has a substantial share, and its products are seen as competitive with Intel's in a variety of market segments. But probably any system that has an ISA slot and needs to be upgraded originally had an Intel processor... Dan |
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are there modern motherboards with ISA slots for *AMD*processors?
Dan Lenski wrote:
That's true... and back in the dinosaur days when ISA slots were prevalent, Intel was the only serious game in town for x86 processors. Now, AMD has a substantial share, and its products are seen as competitive with Intel's in a variety of market segments. But probably any system that has an ISA slot and needs to be upgraded originally had an Intel processor... I don't think that's the problem, AMD was around making processors when ISA was prevalent too. It's just that when ISA was prevalent, AMD was making an earlier generation of processors, and so was Intel. So unless you want to buy one of those earlier generation systems, everyone has moved on from there. With Intel's larger marketshare motherboard makers can afford to create more specialized boards for them that have anachronistic interfaces on them. Yousuf Khan |
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