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On 7/2/05, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote:
> The Asus A8V-E series also does not work.  Asus claims that it's a
> limitation of the Via K8T890 chipset, which is highly unfortunate
> since it's otherwise a good motherboard.  Not sure whether to be
> upset at Asus or Via here, but either way I guess both suck =3D-)

That's part of the reason why I did not choose AMD. Although I wanted
to build an x86-64 capable system and I have absolutely not doubt that
AMD did a good job, how to choose motherboard was a big question to
me. Especially being experienced with KT133A and VT62x2. So I decided
to be chicken and choose (to me) safer Intel P4 531 and P5GD1 board.

BTW Intel and AMD already decided to let all CPUs support
x86-64(mostly for marketing purposes), including P4 5x1 series,
Celeron D 3x1/3x6 series, and Sempron. Intel ones already arrived the
market. So expect more traffics discussing it. Meanwhile the name
AMD64 could be misleading to some people who did not really understand
the differences. ;)

Jia-Shiun.