Some concern for RD600

[Tranzmit]

http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34250

hmmmm bit of a worry

[Haltech]

Welcome to last week DFI is committed and to me, thats all that matters. ASUS would screw it up anyways.

[nn_step]

RD600 will make a slash with the Intel Performance crowd

[exhausted mule]

sounds like just a filler for a slow afternoon at the rumour mills.

ati wouldn't produce a chipset if there wasn't some form of interest from the mobo manufacturers.

[metro.cl]

sounds like just a filler for a slow afternoon at the rumour mills.

ati wouldn't produce a chipset if there wasn't some form of interest from the mobo manufacturers.

Dude have you read news lately???

AMD bought ATI after they started making this chipset, then ATI themselfs have conifrmed that only DFI will make this board

[exhausted mule]

Dude have you read news lately???

AMD bought ATI after they started making this chipset, then ATI themselfs have conifrmed that only DFI will make this board

I have.

But that doesn't change a thing. in fact, if amd really wanted to stick to intel they would start producing a chipset of them no?

That's probably another reason why DFI is the only mobo manufacturer producing an intel board using an out of house chipset. They've seem to stay on the amd side and what relationship DFI has with Intel is surely going to strenghten through this.


Too bad if the rumours are true about this being the last chipset however, that doesn't count out the fact that whatever ATI had in the works wouldn't be thrown out the window ESPECIALLY since AMD is Intel's major competitor.

[AACDIRECT]

I hope that someone builds a board with this chipset. It totally rocks for Core 2. I wish I could tell people all the features that ATI crammed into the reference board. If DFI does only a half assed job it will be an awesome board. (So I expect good things from the DFI board.)

Main reason DFI is willing to take the chance on the ATI chipset is that they are a Tier 2 mobo maker. What's Intel going to do? Short their supply of chipsets so they can't build boards for OEM shipments? Being that they have no major OEM customers...not a deal. For Asus it WOULD be a big deal. If anyone remembers back when the Athlon first launched Asus put the boards in a white box with no branding. No info on their site and they even covered up there logo on the board. All so to not anger Intel.

I just hope that the chipset makes the light of day. The enthusiasts will miss out if it does not.

[Praxis1452]

I hope that someone builds a board with this chipset. It totally rocks for Core 2. I wish I could tell people all the features that ATI crammed into the reference board. If DFI does only a half assed job it will be an awesome board. (So I expect good things from the DFI board.)

Main reason DFI is willing to take the chance on the ATI chipset is that they are a Tier 2 mobo maker. What's Intel going to do? Short their supply of chipsets so they can't build boards for OEM shipments? Being that they have no major OEM customers...not a deal. For Asus it WOULD be a big deal. If anyone remembers back when the Athlon first launched Asus put the boards in a white box with no branding. No info on their site and they even covered up there logo on the board. All so to not anger Intel.

I just hope that the chipset makes the light of day. The enthusiasts will miss out if it does not.

god I hope so.

[Revv23]

I hope that someone builds a board with this chipset. It totally rocks for Core 2. I wish I could tell people all the features that ATI crammed into the reference board. If DFI does only a half assed job it will be an awesome board. (So I expect good things from the DFI board.)

Main reason DFI is willing to take the chance on the ATI chipset is that they are a Tier 2 mobo maker. What's Intel going to do? Short their supply of chipsets so they can't build boards for OEM shipments? Being that they have no major OEM customers...not a deal. For Asus it WOULD be a big deal. If anyone remembers back when the Athlon first launched Asus put the boards in a white box with no branding. No info on their site and they even covered up there logo on the board. All so to not anger Intel.

I just hope that the chipset makes the light of day. The enthusiasts will miss out if it does not.

I like your style. With you 100%

[Magician]

Sorry to bring this up, but DFI is in trouble because of embargo

What we are trying to accomplish is a show of appreciation for the man that has given us all a 'home away from home'. Since the release of the conroe, Intel has failed to supply DFI with a chip to help with the support of the platform (well, i believe 1 was sent to taiwan, but not into H_G's hands).

With a bunch of users jumping on the Conroe bandwagon, its really important that we get a chip into the right hands so that those users' questions\problems dont go unheard or unanswered.

Basically, what i am asking is...

How many users would be willing to give back to the place that has given you countless answers to your questions, treated you with respect as long as you treated others the same way, and has flat out been the best support site for any product that i have ever seen.

I for one am willing.

I am not asking anyone to break the bank here, doing some rough math with prices off the egg, it would take about 45 ppl to donate $10 to get 1 E6600 (with the 4MB cache) and with the sheer amount of users here on the street, i dont think that is a tough feat to accomplish.

A few users have already expressed that they liked the idea but a Poll was suggested to make it more known and to get more opinions on what is trying to be done. LINKAGE

So im putting up a poll with a yes or no answer. Please also include the amount that you would be willing to part with (dont go crazy and say you will put in $100 or something, this should really be a group effort and not be left up to a handfull of people) and once we see that we have enough people that say yes, we can figure out the fine details to do with collection, purchase, and shipping with the help of the mods (probably be best to have one of the mods, just because of the reputation factor...i doubt everyone would send ME $10 for example...cause who am I?).

So i will stop here by saying Thanks for reading and have a nice day!

http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63701

[Revv23]

What...?

DFI cant go out and buy a chip themselves? How is it that they made the 975x/g board?

I have trouble believing this, that sounds like 100% scam to me.

[aragon1337]

"ATI's RD600 is a dead duck "

lool... someone kill me please..

[b0bd0le]

yeah that's a little absurd that DFI cannot get a conroe...

[Dumo]

DFI San Jose can't provide DFI Street peeps with 1 pcs. of 6600?

[metro.cl]

DFI San Jose can't provide DFI Street peeps with 1 pcs. of 6600?

really weird that is bull

[thunderstruck!]

LMAO. Pitch in for the guys at the street?

[gOJDO]

http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34250

hmmmm bit of a worry

Expect artilce from the_INQ about AMD chipset for Intel.
We've been allready enlightened by the_INQ about the new AMD-Intel hybrid systems:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34265

The lowest end computer, Dimension C520 will set you back for measly 12 euros a month, and it comes bundled with AMD Sempr0n 3400+, Intel® 945G Express Chipset, 256 MB 533MHz DDR-II SDRAM, 160GB SATA, no monitor whatsoever, nVIDIA 6150-LE nForce integrated, Audio Surround 7.1, DVD+/-RW 16x, one year on-site warranty.

The highest cost option is 849 euros with French VAT, or 28 euros a month. That will get a dual-core Athlon 64 X2 4200+, Intel 945P chipset, half a gig of memory, two hard drives striped in one large 320GB volume, SATA DVD burner and 19" Dell LCD bundled with GeForce 7300 TurboCache 256MB filling the only PCIe x16 slot.

These guys are really really good in what they are doing.

[LowRun]

DFI street is getting better and better, now taking members money to buy the owner some conroe goodness. Actualy, Happy_Games is totaly shameless.

[AACDIRECT]

What...?

DFI cant go out and buy a chip themselves? How is it that they made the 975x/g board?

I have trouble believing this, that sounds like 100% scam to me.

I have worked with DFI over the last year. If this guy is in tech support in the US they very well might not have a chip. Most Asian based tech companies run their US branches like a separate company. Many times they are treated like a third party distributor than an office branch. I know that at least one company that is popular "sells" their motherboards to the US branch. Accounting, sales and tech support are all separate from the parent company.

With DFI USA and Crossfire they did not have two videocards at the beginning to test with. I had to provide them with feed back which was passed to Taiwan to generate a fix. I was much of the US testing at the time.

Even in big companies like NVIDIA, ATI, AMD, and Intel some departments can not get their own product quickly. So it could be legit that DFI USA will not give a chip to DFI-street. They might not have one or only have one......

[K404]

Gotta love good comms between Company departments. Thats a disgrace.

[n-sanity]

I have.

But that doesn't change a thing. in fact, if amd really wanted to stick to intel they would start producing a chipset of them no?

That's probably another reason why DFI is the only mobo manufacturer producing an intel board using an out of house chipset. They've seem to stay on the amd side and what relationship DFI has with Intel is surely going to strenghten through this.


Too bad if the rumours are true about this being the last chipset however, that doesn't count out the fact that whatever ATI had in the works wouldn't be thrown out the window ESPECIALLY since AMD is Intel's major competitor.

Erm, actually it will put them in intel's dark side, because if u read the news correctly, u'd know that the reason only dfi is doing a mobo with the chipset is that intel pressured everyone else, including dfi NOT TO.

[Revv23]

I have worked with DFI over the last year. If this guy is in tech support in the US they very well might not have a chip. Most Asian based tech companies run their US branches like a separate company. Many times they are treated like a third party distributor than an office branch. I know that at least one company that is popular "sells" their motherboards to the US branch. Accounting, sales and tech support are all separate from the parent company.

With DFI USA and Crossfire they did not have two videocards at the beginning to test with. I had to provide them with feed back which was passed to Taiwan to generate a fix. I was much of the US testing at the time.

Even in big companies like NVIDIA, ATI, AMD, and Intel some departments can not get their own product quickly. So it could be legit that DFI USA will not give a chip to DFI-street. They might not have one or only have one......

Wow, thanks for the input, thats definetly something i wouldn't imagine was going on.

That makes sense, but conroes are in high availability right now, i still find it hard to believe they cannot afford one e6600. I mean, talk about a budget operation, how can they afford bandwidth if they cannot even get a cpu?