ASRock 939Dual-SATA2: First Retail ULi PCIe/AGP

Many have been looking forward to the arrival of the first ULi chipset retail motherboards since our review of the ULi Reference boards. In the first Reference board review and the updated second ULi Reference, we found the performance of the on-board PCIe and AGP 8X to be both uncompromised. This is very good news for owners of high-end AGP 8X graphics cards, since for the first time they can buy a board what will run their AGP at full speed now, with provisions for a PCIe video card now or in the future. Since we have found no real performance difference in PCIe and AGP cards of the same type, the ULi M1695/M1567 chipset provides fresh new options for many end users.