Fall 2004 Motherboard Preview: A Sea of New
by Wesley Fink on June 4, 2004 12:00 PM EST- Posted in
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ATI RS480 for AMD Socket 939 Athlon 64
There have been rumors for months that AMD would have a chipset for Athlon 64, and we even saw an ATI chipset for Athlon 64 in a recent roadmap posted at AnandTech. However, we were more than a little surprised to see ULI (formerly ALi and a producer of core logic chipsets) displaying a Socket 939 board for Athlon 64 based on an ATI RS480 Northbridge combined with an ALi Southbridge providing PCI Express.
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ULI was also showing an RS480/ALi motherboard for the upcoming Intel Socket 775 and live demonstrations of their on-chip Azalia audio.
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While the ULI/Ali solutions were really interesting, ULI is one of the smaller players in the core logic market. This, unfortunately, means that no matter how great the product, ULI/Ali will have a hard time getting their solutions to market with the larger board makers.
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Wesley Fink - Friday, June 4, 2004 - link
#1 -Based on what we now know we expect the new graphics integrated in 915 will be the best performing integrated graphics we have tested. We are told performance is roughly equivalent to 5200FX. That will not excite many of our readers, but it is still a fact that 60% of motherboard shipments are integrated graphics.
Cygni - Friday, June 4, 2004 - link
Depressing is when you see the performance "gain" PCI-E 16x was supposed to offer in real life. Hint: Its not there.JGF - Friday, June 4, 2004 - link
September at the earliest for A64 nvidia PCI-E is more than a little depressing. :(Bozo Galora - Friday, June 4, 2004 - link
http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=858&s=2Speaking of 4 phase power...
Is that 5 phase power on the shuttle board?
RyanVM - Friday, June 4, 2004 - link
On page 3: "As we reported, PCI-X and AGP on the same 915 board is supposedly an impossible engineering feat."PCI-E!!!!!!!!!
jrphoenix - Friday, June 4, 2004 - link
Good to see all the news on the Athlon 939 boards and PCI-Express. Does anyone have an idea when we will see these boards? It was kind of depressing hearing that Nvidia may not support this until Q3 or Q4 :(Heck... when will we see any socket 939 boards?
SDA - Friday, June 4, 2004 - link
"A Sea of NEW"?Hm. Problem with an A64 with decently powerful integrated graphics is that the A64's so expensive that I don't see much of a need for it. .. ehm, but OEMs would like that, I'm sure. Save them money on cheapo add-in cards, for sure, and they could still advertise "64-bit power!"
DDR2 and DDR1 on the same board, eh. What, is the yellow slot DDR2? What the hell? I thought the purpose of a key was to make it HARDER TO STICK THINGS IN THE WRONG WAY? It's practically in the fscking middle! Rrrrr. And I thought DDR1 was bad. Also, "Intel's excellent new integrated graphics"? Excellent must be a relative term.
Also, Tyan now has nine Opteron boards. On one hand, that's an amusingly diverse selection.. on the other hand, it's great that there are so many choices there, and Tyan boards ARE quality.