Gigabyte is one of the most productive components manufacturer around today and one of the interesting products being worked on right now is a mainboard which with help of a memory-adapter supports both DDR1 and DDR2. It speaks for itself, it’s intended for Intel’s Socket 775-platform, but what differs Gigabyte GA-8VT880P from the others is that its memory controller supports both DDR1 and DDR2. Instead of making both DDR1 and DDR2-slots on the mainboard, Gigabyte has developed an adapter which is inserted directly into the memory slots.
We’ve earlier reported about this mainboard which utilizes a VIA-chipset to get this backwards compability. And if they would also have crammed in both AGP and PCI-Express-slots just like ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 this really would have been an “upgrader’s” dream. However it will be interesting to see how Gigabyte’s system works, and if it will find it’s way to other systems in the future.
Source: Bit-tech
