Abit is releasing a board with the old Intel chipset so that people who want the new 775 processors can get them now, even before Intel irons out the new chipset problems. I wouldn't buy that now...it's a waste. May as well go with socket 478 if you want AGP and DDR1 support! One of the biggest deals about socket 775 is the chipset features, and that motherboard is devoid of any of them.
Straight from Tom's Hardware:
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Besides a new motherboard including processor and cooler, changing over to the Socket 775 means you have to have new DDR2 DIMMs and a PCI Express graphics card. In order to use the features of the new Southbridge then, it would be also good to have a hard drive with command queuing support. Or two even, in the so-called Matrix RAID. But who wants to spend all that money when, as things stand today, the benefits can hardly be noticed, much less measured?
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