PCI Express 915 and 925 boards are everywhere

Abit has two boards ready - the AA8 Dura Max 925P Alterwood board and AG8 PRO 915P Grantsdale board and it is sampling them as we speak. The AA8 Dura max board will feature an Alderwood chipset with support for LGA775 FSB 800 MHz with HT technology, 4 DIMM Dual DDRII 400/533 up to 4GB, 1 x PCI-Express X16, 3 x PCI-Express X1 and 2 x PCI, 4 x SATA 150 (RAID), 1 x ATA100, 8 x USB 2.0, 3 x IEEE1394, GbE LAN, Onboard 8-Ch Audio and Optical S/P DIF In/Out and ABIT µ(mu)Guru Technology. Both boards are extremely feature rich and feature Abit muGuru marchitecture and should be very good overclockers. We expect to see both of them very soon.

Albatron has the PX925X Pro-RW, its Alderwood motherboard with similar features. It's an Alderwood with IC6RW chipset, 775 socket, 4 DDR 2 slots two PCI-E 1 X and one PCI-E 16X for graphics, S -ATA RAID, eight channel audio and two LAN cards, one 1Gigabit and the other 100Mbit. It has three PCI slots.

Asus has two boards 925 and 915 - but we don't have many details about them. Mageek did get a phone call from Adrian Thompson yesterday trying to track me down, so to speak.

Epox has a 915G board as it believes that there is a market for this integrated board. It's called the EP-5EGA+ and uses 915G+ICH6R Express Chipset and has on board Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 (Intel®GMA900) supports four DDR 400/533 memory slots, one PCI Express x16; 2 PCI Express x1; 4 PCI, 8 USB 2.0 ports, two P-ATA ports with RAID 0, 1, 0+1 support and four S-ATA ports with RAID 0, 1 support, Gbit LAN and some other cool features.

Shuttle has two XPCs based of their new Micro ATX motherboards XPC SB81P and XPC SB83G5 integrated graphic 915G one, as we noted yesterday.

No doubt there's shedloads of other third party boards but the firms haven't got round to telling me what they are, yet. µ