Computex 2005 Day 2 - ULi's new Athlon 64 Chipset, G70, CrossFire & more
by Anand Lal Shimpi on June 1, 2005 1:57 AM EST- Posted in
- Trade Shows
PowerColor's Wall of ATI GPUs
PowerColor's parent company TUL had tons of ATI GPUs and ATI based motherboards on display at the show. Among the most notable were the following:
PowerColor's completely passively cooled X800 XL graphics card:
The ATI Radeon X550 also made an appearance at PowerColor's booth. From what we have seen, the X550 is just basically a higher clocked X300. Whether or not the higher clock justifies the name change is another discussion entirely.
The final card of interest at PowerColor was their Theater 550 Pro based TV tuner. Our recent TV Tuner Comparison showed ATI's Theater 550 Pro offered the absolute best image quality out of any analog TV tuner.
Tul was a launch partner for ATI's CrossFire chipset, however all of the static motherboards on display at their booth were vanilla Radeon Xpress 200 boards.
A Tul Socket-754 Radeon Xpress 200 motherboard, note the use of the ULi South Bridge
Tul did have an ATI reference CrossFire system running:
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vailr - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
#20 Gigabyte already offers a "silent heatpipe cooled" Radeon X800 XL card:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82...
at80eighty - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
Vapor ware issues aside... i have a Ti4200 (happy with it too)but have been saving up for my next rig in about 6-9 months..
so far i was looking at 6800GT (possibly SLI) config..
question is.. should i wait for the G70?
Anand? anyone?
Warder45 - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
So are we going to see anything other then photo's of the G70?yacoub - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
#10 - what was the SN26P slated to offer? It might just already be on its way to market and not worth showing off as a future product?Btw the "PowerColor completely passively cooled X800 XL" is sexy. I want one of those to go in the SN25P I'm considering building, to keep down on the noise. I just wonder if a passively cooled card would be better in a full-size case where there is more space around the card for it to cool off. Hmmm... if Anand ever does more SN25P testing I'd like to see how that new Powercolor X800 XL holds up temp-wise in such a small case.
erwos - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
"DFI is my new hero. First reputable company mobo I've seen w/o legacy ports. Let's keep moving in that direction - less legacy more USB/FW2!"Abit did a series of boards without any legacy components at least a year ago - and I think it was more like 2-3. Believe it or not, lots people actually complained that they needed the PS/2 ports, and Abit had to put them back on the newer versions of those boards.
-Erwos
Araemo - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
ULi's AGP south bridge caught my eye. If it's compatible with the ATI crossfire(Or otherwise?) north bridges, could we see an ATI based motherboard supporting both PCIe 16x and AGP, using that ULi south bridge? That would be perfect for my friend who just bought a 9800 pro for his aging KT133a, only to find out it will NOT work in his current motherboard.. He's looking to upgrade the mobo/cpu/ram(Athlon 1.4 + pc133 ram.. so the whole thing has to get upgraded at once really).. A nice new S939 motherboard with an ATI or ULi northbridge and the ULi AGP southbridge would be perfect, without making him buy ANOTHER new mobo/cpu/ram when he wants an PCIe video card in 3 years.vailr - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
That Zalman 9500 CPU cooler looks excellent: any temperature readings?Sapphire is supposed to soon be offering a "liquid metal Gallium" VPU cooler. Or, any sightings of a similar technology, CPU cooler?
See:
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/news/307
http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/blizzard.asp
http://www.nanocoolers.com/technology_liquid.php
shaw - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
Nice update! I'm still waiting for somebody to blow the whistle on the next gen GPUs.vailr - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
Won't Abit's newer versions of nForce4 boards be transitioning to their "silent Q-OTES", instead of the fan-cooled board pictured?From the many motherboards shown, only the Abit and DFI boards seem to be getting rid of the legacy parallel and serial ports. I'd like to see more legacy-free boards from ASUS, AOpen, MSI, Foxconn, and others.
And, are there any boards using SiS chipsets, that can compete with socket 939, nForce4 boards?
Thanks.
Aquila76 - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
DFI is my new hero. First reputable company mobo I've seen w/o legacy ports. Let's keep moving in that direction - less legacy more USB/FW2!