Conspiracy theory on AGP / PCI E and socket 478 CPU's
by Vashner · in Hardware Issues · 11/20/2005 (11:32 pm) · 4 replies
Argh there are no Intel Socket 478 P4's with a PCI - E.
I found a model Asus P4GD1 but no one has it in stock. I checked bunch of places in Canada and UK too.
I hate to buy a whole new CPU. I have a prescott 2.8 HT and a gig of dual channel memory specced to intel's
chipset (certified memory list). It took me weeks to find the right set of memory.
But now I want a PCI video card it's like like Nvidia ATI intel and MB makers conspired to make people
kinda have to buy the new socket CPU's.
I found a model Asus P4GD1 but no one has it in stock. I checked bunch of places in Canada and UK too.
I hate to buy a whole new CPU. I have a prescott 2.8 HT and a gig of dual channel memory specced to intel's
chipset (certified memory list). It took me weeks to find the right set of memory.
But now I want a PCI video card it's like like Nvidia ATI intel and MB makers conspired to make people
kinda have to buy the new socket CPU's.
#2
01/01/2006 (9:15 am)
I believe he means PCI Express, not PCI. It's not really a conspiracy, it's just that when they make new stuff, it works with the other new stuff they make. Not a lot of reason to make it go backward.
#3
01/02/2006 (11:50 am)
Ah, I see what he means then. I've never heard of a 478/PCI-E (x16) in one motherboard, so you're outta luck. You need to research throughly before buying a computer in the future if that is your concern; they have been planning PCI-E since 2001 and Intel has been implementing their LGA sockets for quite some time now. It only makes sense to make new, higher throughput circuits. 
Tyler Stach