RD600 first look and general questions

[Tony]

Bios shots as promised, I left them as thumbs, just click to get the larger pic.

I will answer questions here on the options.

T

[Tony]

It will do higher than 511 but from XP only at this time, Oskar may add more options to bios though.

I will say with async ram clocking higher multi cpu's really are the way to go now keeping 500fsb the real max limit.

[Trice]

I want one

[JoeBar]

OMG i feel like a noob! All this NB voltages...

[Ibinco]

Holly smokes... Im a OCing noob as it is now...if i ever get that board ill have to hire in support to help me clock it.. dammmmmmmmmn man...Ill take a week off work to play with it cause.. thats insane!

[Tony]

Tony is it true that the RD600 offers only 8x pci-e in XF if so what happened to the 16x pci-e in XF???

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/200..._launch_nears/

Its 16X with one card or 8x8 with 2, issue is just like Nf4 its fast with dual cards, I actually feel 16X 16X is not needed.

[technodanvan]

Bios shots as promised, I left them as thumbs, just click to get the larger pic.

I will answer questions here on the options.

T

Is that manual IRQ selection I see?

God that'll be nice, hopefully no more sound card issues.

Thanks for the shots Tony.

[Gascogne]

What is the max cpu voltage on the motherboard?

[Tony]

What is the max cpu voltage on the motherboard?

I quoted that way back...1.6+121.25%

[EnJoY]

Its 16X with one card or 8x8 with 2, issue is just like Nf4 its fast with dual cards, I actually feel 16X 16X is not needed.

Wasn't the RD580 16x16 with 2 cards?

[Tony]

Just so you know.

FSB CPU 511 max thru bios
MEM FSB 658 Thru bios, so 1316 max DDR2


T

[Tony]

Wasn't the RD580 16x16 with 2 cards?

yes it was

[Thasp]

Please tell me the manual for that tells me what a PLL is instead of being like the DAGF and giving me what a sata or ide port is in 19 languages

Those settings are amazing. It makes this ASUS look crippled.. not that it doesn't already look crippled. I want to have that board's children.

[Viss]

Any info on 4 pin native psu's? Stil using a 520 Modstream

[EnJoY]

yes it was

Could you share some insight as to why they downgraded this part of the chipset Tony? I understand you don't feel it makes a noticable impact as you've already stated, but I'm curious if you have any idea why the decision was made?

Thanks btw for all your info on this and your continuing work with it Tony.

[marauder16]

Man so many options, we'll need like a 50 page guide for this... Me like
thnx for the shots Tony

[dinos22]

Guys some more info for you.

RD600 is not as fast as i975 for superPI, if this matters to you and you spend all your life watching the PC crunch 20 loops then this is not the board for you.
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i'd give it a miss for sure..........unfortunately i'm one of those sad individuals

[Gascogne]

I quoted that way back...1.6+121.25%

So if I understand it right, roughly 1.9v is maximum?

[Johnny Bravo]

FARK!

Just seen the BIOS screen, how on EARTH can we already be passing judgement on this board?!?! It'll take MONTHS to get this board configured right testing all those settings

This board has SERIOUS potential and if it's already hitting 511 odd MHz then the future is defiantly bright for the RD600

[marauder16]

FARK!

Just seen the BIOS screen, how on EARTH can we already be passing judgement on this board?!?! It'll take MONTHS to get this board configured right testing all those settings

This board has SERIOUS potential and if it's already hitting 511 odd MHz then the future is defiantly bright for the RD600

well BIOS max is 511MHz, you can't set it higher (in this rev. of BIOS)...

@Gascogne: 1.94V to be precise

[Gascogne]

@Gascogne: 1.94V to be precise

Sweet thanks, I really want the board now.

[Tony]

Could you share some insight as to why they downgraded this part of the chipset Tony? I understand you don't feel it makes a noticable impact as you've already stated, but I'm curious if you have any idea why the decision was made?

Thanks btw for all your info on this and your continuing work with it Tony.

RD600 is actually quite old, I have a board here from over a year ago using a very early version of the chipset.

As far as i know there are 14 revisions of the chipset now, 13 and 14 being the best.

So....this chipset was actually designed ways back with RD480 which was 8 x 8 also.

EDIT: AMD just corrected me, 4 revisions of RD600, 13 and 14 being the 3rd and 4th...so 4 respins overall.

[Tony]

i'd give it a miss for sure..........unfortunately i'm one of those sad individuals

DFI make an i680 also you know, I will be previewing this also soon

[[XC] gomeler]

Jeez..well good thing it won't be widely available till spring, I'll have plenty of time to save for a new setup.

[Achill3uS]

Please tell me what is not sounding good?
I take it super pi matters to you?

some facts for this board.

It runs sli damn fast with a special driver. It clocks ram as high as commando, it does xfire just fine and has the ability to bond the dual lan also.

I can't see why you would make a comment about a board just because i say its 0.05 secs slower at Pi 1M?

0.05 secs not so bad, for a better Pi run we oc more
I like the board, but only 100 pcs before xmas its very very limited.. i dont understand DFI, they could sell more only in this 2 weeks i think

#251 But which board will be faster in Pi and 3D, and which can get higher fsb.. its secret too

#254 I hope so