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ECS New G31 Chipset Motherboards

Published on 1st August 2007 by ECS

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Gravemind123 1st August 2007, 20:02

Is there any reason Intel would chose to pair a newer chipset with an older southbridge? Is it purely for the purpose of native IDE or is there some other reason this uses ICH7 instead of 8 or 9?

GuitarBizarre 1st August 2007, 22:30

I lean towards a combination of it being cheaper to make, and the increased likelihood of the lower end chipsets being paired with IDE hard drives in budget PCs.

Gravemind123 1st August 2007, 23:18

Are IDE hard-drives still cheaper at this point? It seems to me like SATA and IDE are pretty much the same price these days, but I guess if you spend $2 more on each SATA drive when you build a lot of PCs that would add up.

Tulatin 2nd August 2007, 05:21

Ideally speaking, the 7 is good for budget builds. It has the inbuilt floppy and IDE port (no controller chip needed), 4 SATA-II, and gives you just enough lanes to get what - x16 x1 PCI PCI on a M-ATX board? After all, at best, your budget beast will come with a DVD burner and 1TB storage, anyway...

Bindibadgi 2nd August 2007, 08:53

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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre
I lean towards a combination of it being cheaper to make, and the increased likelihood of the lower end chipsets being paired with IDE hard drives in budget PCs.

Bingo.

And the fact it'll likely be an old chipset slightly modified and rebadged until the G33 comes along.

GuitarBizarre 2nd August 2007, 12:44

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Originally Posted by Gravemind123
Are IDE hard-drives still cheaper at this point? It seems to me like SATA and IDE are pretty much the same price these days, but I guess if you spend $2 more on each SATA drive when you build a lot of PCs that would add up.

Whether they're cheaper or not I don't know, but I know theres definitely a lot more of them going around, and they don't exactly become obsolete, so its likely just because people will be building budget boxes with older drives. 99% of the PC owners in the world don't know or care what a SATA optical drive is, and only a few less than that probably even have one.

wewe 17th August 2007, 07:58

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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre
Whether they're cheaper or not I don't know, but I know theres definitely a lot more of them going around, and they don't exactly become obsolete, so its likely just because people will be building budget boxes with older drives. 99% of the PC owners in the world don't know or care what a SATA optical drive is, and only a few less than that probably even have one.

they will do when they come to upgrade in the near future, motherboard manufacturers need to introduce next level technology into thier boards so people have a chance to upgrade in this fast moving market.