ATI XPRess3200 CF MOBO first results

[coolaler]

ATI XPRess3200 CF MOBO first results













Platform



Platform
M/B ：ATI XPRess3200 CF
MEM ：G.SKILL DDRII 1066 1024x2 Dual Channel
HDD ：Maxtor 300g SATAII 16Mb Cache
VGA CARD ：X1900 CF
POWER: Enhance 650W
OS ：WIN Sever2003 & XP pro sp2
CPU COOLER：sonic tower
CPU ：Intel Core 2 Duo Conroe E6700
BIOS Info

[Charles Wirth]

That is the older spin of the board. Trace rework done on new board.

Notice the spacing of the caps from the CPU socket.

Nics pics. I will confirm if I can post scores as well from the new board.

[M.Beier]

Lookin' good, whats up with all the wires on the board? Due very early sample?
Also "sensor #1, #2, #3"

Sorry for my behaviour

Btw..
Memory clock, is it only those speeds, or is 1Mhz steps also availible?

EDTI:
Ohh no, not all that stuff around socket, makes phasechange impossible

[vanovich]

dam nice there ,now this ,ive been waiting for . what would we do without you coolaler . vcore options? vdim ?

[Charles Wirth]

Those are default boot speeds for memory, fine adjust in windows up or down.

[vanovich]

fugger , kan you get your ls to fit around the cpu socket?

[Charles Wirth]

I have not tried due to the cap clearance and not wanting moisture to harm the CPU or board. Even for short runs it not worth the risk as I like this board.

Moving the caps to the backside of the board is possible, but then the bracket would need to be drilled for clearance.

[coolaler]

there are some option can disable one core and speedstep

[Evilsizer]

that heatsink on the chipset reminds me of the alpha hs's with pins.
would be nice to see some scores in 3dmark and some fear fps's.
if possible fear @1024x786 and up res runs.
the red pcb is a nice change from the stale green. wonder if they would ever do a black one. hmm thinking now all black with a copper chipset HS and copper Fet sinks.
wow down to 6, this would be cool for a HTPC.

[NapalmV5]

damn coolaler, ur a machine! do u ever sleep? everyday new mobo/cpu/setup/benchmarks

good work!

[vanovich]

so your saying ,we mach or ls users cant really use this board? dam pitty if thats the case ,seems like a nice quility board .and lots of futures .looking forward in seeing some results

[Charles Wirth]

With this board many people will learn what sticky NVRAM really is.

You can set settings in windows and you can reboot and keep settings. If you press the reset button the settings will default back to bios settings. It is so nice not having to reset the bios.

[Vric]

Might be a stupid question, but what are the 2 molex connector on the board for ?

[ugp]

Might be a stupid question, but what are the 2 molex connector on the board for ?

Probably more power/regulation for the motherboard. I would assume just like the DFI SLI-D/SLI-DRs had.

[Evilsizer]

^^^
good eye i missed that... looks like custom.

[coolaler]

[BWR]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2657
Press-released benchmarks.



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[Evilsizer]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2657
Press-released benchmarks.

yea saw that look how much faster the oced 1.86 is @1333fsb, even has 2mb L2!
coolar what voltage does it take to be able to do 333fsb?

[ost_2005]

Might be a stupid question, but what are the 2 molex connector on the board for ?

I think this is a very sample.

Retail one wont have so many molex connectors.

[thunderstruck!]

What's up with cpuz and the mem? Nothing shows...

[ost_2005]

What's up with cpuz and the mem? Nothing shows...

In fact, CPU-z doesnt support ATi mem control including very old chipsets-Xpress 200 for intel.

CPU-Z is not good enough in this case, anyway.

[farksy]

Wow .. cool board ! But is 1 PCI slot enough ? Some people might have soudn cards, RAID cards, etc. Probably the only worry at this point of time.

[lowfat]

those ram spreaders look pimp

[theteamaqua]

interesting , lets see some overclocking

btw nice RAM :P

[qdemn7]

coolaler what type of camera are you using to take those shots? Whatever it is, it's a damn good one. That close-up of the SB heatsink is something. The graphics are almost 3D on my Dell2405FPW.