Dual Processor MB Forecast?

[andwhite]

I currently have a Tyan Trinity 400. I want a dual processor board. I don't want a VIA dual motherboard because of the problems I have with slow memory throughput and pretty much non-existent AGP 4x support ( I know it doesn't matter but it is annoying).
I do not want RDRAM.

Is there an existing or future dual MB with these specs:
Dual socket 370
133 mhz RAM support for my existing RAM
preferably based on the i815 chipset for better memory and AGP implementation.

It seems that this is a simple request but all dual boards have RDRAM (too expensive) or are based on VIA (pretty much sucks) or 440BX ( dying slowly). Or am I just going to have to wait for dual DDR boards and get new RAM. That would be annoying.

Thanks for any suggestions

 

[Vegito]

i815E does NOT support SMP, that's intel's way of saying go RAMBUS... but since that mistake, they're probably fixing that..'

Epox supposely has a i815E SMP mobo out soon, but hey, look at above statement.

Asus as a dual using serverworks chipset, 600+ though, has scsi, etc.. using sdram..

 

[andwhite]

Yeah, I've looked at the Tyan, Serverworks based MB's, but they are all very server centric and way too expensive. I hate RDRAM. It would seem that between the 440bx dual boards and the dual i820/i840 a consumer niche would exist for workstation dual boards. It would be ok if VIA based boards worked well but they come with a lot of baggage. I know that from my trinity. Intel really dropped the ball this last year. I just figured someone besides VIA would recognize this niche and exploit it. Obviously common sense isn't a legitimate business practice!

 

[Cylon]

I never had a problem with my MSI 694D (via based), but then again, I might be lucky .

2cpu.com is a great place to pick up some info on dually boards.

Incidentally, you may just want to wait for the AMD 760MP chipset to come out. Dual athlons = .

 

[MadMerc]

the rioworks sdvia looks good - i know its a via based board but it supports agp pro ann also "sopports overclocking with 150mhz bus and higher"

a lot of the guys at 2cpu are using boards like the asus p2b-d (i think thats right) which although its BX board is stable at 133mhz and has a 1/4pci divider

 

[subhuman]

Although it isnt OFFICIALLY supported, we will probably see a DUALLY 815 motherboard here shortly. Remember, Celerons and the BX chipset didnt officially support SMP either, but look at the ABIT BP6...

 

[Vegito]

Celeron still doesn't work in Dual, you need to mod it to make it work so natively it doesn't. All the new board are modded for smp celeron but smp celeron 2 is no go yet.

But like I said, Epox seems to have a i815 SMP..