ATi RD600 (Intel CrossFire Mainboard)

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Well for those who didn't look at the english translation here it is.

News shared from Taiwan manufacturer, ATi would announce the most powerful Intel CrossFire platform chipset, ATi RD600, in the coming days. It’s temporarily named ATi Xpress 3200 Intel Edition and compatible to the new Intel Conroe processor. It would be manufactured by TSMC with 90nm process.

This product is targeted on enthusiastic user, supporting 1333MHz FSB, Dual Channel DDR2-1066 and providing Split Channel Mode to lower the latency. From the internal testing, a maximum of 1600MHz was reported in the over clock mode with A13 version, which has 6 PCB layers. In addition, the memory clock is independent to the FSB. It sounds good to the fans of over clocking.

ATi RD600 also provides Automatic PCIe Over clocking technology, which is similar to the Boostlink function of nVidia nForce 590SLi. When X1800 or X1900 is detected, the FSB of PCI-E would be raised to 125 MHz or even 150 MHz from 100 MHz automatically. On the mean while, ATi would release ASM for Windows platform, like the nTune by nVidia, providing tweaking options including FSB, Memory Clock, PCIe Clock, Memory Timings and Voltage Adjustment.

Furthermore, it has 48 PCI-E Lanes and supports for 3 PCI-E slots, 2 for CrossFire and 1 for Physics Acceleration. More details for ATi Physics Acceleration will be announced during Computex 2006. For the south bridge, SB600 will be used and it may eventually be coupled with SB650. Now we have no more news for SB650 and RD600 is expected to be launched in the summer.

48 PCI-e lanes thats nice . 3pci-e slots again nice . Looks like ATI is dead serious about PPU

If this chipset works as good as intels. I found the chipset I will be buying for Conroe this thing looks unbeatable. But befor I get to excited Will wait for you guys to buy and test. You guys are better than reviewers the way you push to the limit.