Asrock, ASUS's neurotic budget and 'crazy things no one else would think of' division has produced a few motherboards capable Core and Core 2s using DDR1 and AGP.
The most noteable board is this:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=ConRoe865PE
So it'll run at an FSB of 1066mhz by overclocking the bejebus out of DDR400 chips. If I've done my numbers right (And oh boy, am I ready to be wrong. FSB/Memory speeds on Intels confuse me muchly) This means pushing DDR400 from 200mhz to 333mhz... I downloaded the manual and it doesn't give any warnings about cheap memory or anything and simply tells you to use DDR400 but not DDR333 or anything. So I'm somewhat at a loss as to how this board is supposed to operate a Conroe and, ya know, not explode. O.o
At the same time, it looks like a tempting upgrade path as you can go to Core or Core 2 with only replacing you CPU and mobo. AGP graphics and DDR1 memory can all be grandfathered in. Where as with most boards you're looking at new CPU, mobo, memory AND graphics as AGP is non-existant on the new Conroe supporting chipsets.
So would someone like to tell me if this is brilliant or suicide?


