ATI Crossfire Picks Up Momentum
ATI Crossfire was the big story at Computex. Each new day brought more displays of Crossfire dual-VGA boards or an announcement of new vendors that would support the new ATI chipsets. In earlier Computex coverage, we have already shown you pictures of ATI Crossfire boards from Asus (Intel), MSI (AMD), DFI (AMD), Gigabyte (AMD and Intel), Sapphire (AMD and Intel) and HIS.In addition, ECS made it clear that they would be supplying High-End ATI boards in their new Extreme line.
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While Abit was not showing finished ATI boards, they announced at Computex that Abit would be producing both AMD and Intel versions of ATI Crossfire motherboards supporting dual-graphics cards.
This time around, manufacturers tell us that they are impressed with the performance and outstanding overclocking capabilities of ATI's Reference Crossfire boards. It is clear that ATI has finally gained the attention of all the top makers of Enthusiast motherboards, since they are all represented in the list of manufacturers that will produce ATI Crossfire motherboards. With this kind of manufacturer support, we are looking forward to testing a production Crossfire board in the near future. Our guess is to expect July or August availability of Crossfire boards in the retail channel.
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nserra - Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - link
Any one know what speed FX57 will work?Acording to my mobo web site is 2.6Ghz, anyone?
http://www.asrock.com/support/CPU_Support/CPUSuppo...
nserra - Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - link
I agree with #17 i want some Uli board review.I have been installing Asrock K8 Combo-Z, K8Upgrade-1689 or 939A8X-M and all look good.
Houdani - Monday, June 13, 2005 - link
I'm all in favor of moving away from the legacy ports, but is this a new trend to put radiators and shrouds where the parallel/serial ports used to reside?BTW, what IS with that yellow shroud on the Elitegroup board?
kmmatney - Sunday, June 12, 2005 - link
So when are we going to get a review of a ULi based motherboard? Anandtech has hinted at good things...flatblastard - Sunday, June 12, 2005 - link
#9 xsilverYeah, that new external uGuru looks like a cheap Atomic clock. I saw one just like it at Walgreens the other day, lol.
cwroten - Sunday, June 12, 2005 - link
I have been told by Jetway as of June 8 2005 that the A210GDAG-Pro motherboard will not be available in the USA. The A210GDMS-Pro (uAtx version) is available thru Newegg.plewis00 - Saturday, June 11, 2005 - link
Hasn't it been proven heatspreaders are usually a waste of time anyway? Isn't the best way to cool these things, good airflow. When I say usually I mean on your mid-high end DDR400 DIMMs, not on the ultra-fast 3.6V stuff.JNo - Saturday, June 11, 2005 - link
Guys, that diamond was a good heat conductor was news to me but that carbon fibre should be is very surprising. "Carbon" as a conductor per se does not mean anything because the particular allotrope will determine physical and other properties. The fibres are made of graphite sheets which are very *poor* conductors of heat (I remember holding graphite in blue bunsen flames and feeling nothing). I presume Geil knows what it is doing but am nevertheless surprised that carbon fibre should not insulate (maybe it dissipates heat very effectively though?).sprockkets - Saturday, June 11, 2005 - link
Anyone have any experience with Jetway? Their uATX Radeon Express board has Azalia whatever sound with 32MB on board memory with 4 dimms for a 939 socket athlon and a reliable ULi southbridge instead of the buggy ATI ones. Not bad for $95. No gbe though, but big deal.Avalon - Saturday, June 11, 2005 - link
I wonder if that little net box 500mhz 1 watt machine is running an AMD Geode.