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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bigboxes - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
That cmos reset button on Abit's front panel is pretty cool, if not somewhat of a gimmick. It just seems that the mobo mfgrs don't bother in asking the customers what we really want. If a mobo has a great bios then it's lacking in controllers or if it has higher DIMM voltage settings then it has ridiculous colors and LEDs.Doormat - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
Wow, a PC-based cablecard tuner is being held up by DRM requirements? What a surprise. Mark my words it'll never make it to market. I'd venture to say that we might see CC 2.0 tuners for a closed platform like the Xbox360 or PS3 (to turn it into a Tivo-like device), but never for a standalone PC. The MPAA would have to fall apart before a PC cablecard tuner will be allowed to be sold in the US.Waylay00 - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
Wow, looks great! Must have A8N-SLI Premium...