Quote Originally Posted by Mekrel View Post
Care to come and play with my RD600 board?

It's a hot running chipset - even under water and I've not even taken it past 1.5v which is the recommended voltage not to pass by AMD and Tony.

The fact the chipset takes 1.7v+ to do 450+ FSB 1:1 and 2v for around 500 (unlinked). Other chipsets can do that without even needing a voltage raise.

Read the ICFX3200 thread and pretty much everyone echos the same verdict.

nForce2, nForce3 250GB, nForce4 Ultra we're all the best chipsets for their platforms. I would imagine the upcoming chipsets from AMD/ATi will be more competitive since the take over.

I'm sorry that it upsets you that I'm cynical about new hardware, it's a well known fact everyone over hypes releases for hardware. I was sucked in by the RD600 hype.

Another point is the SB chips from ATi have always been under performers. SB480 was a joke, making motherboard companies chose ULi to pair with RD420/580 and it was promised that SB600 would be amazing. Yet the RAID performance of the chip is dire.
It is expected to get hot when you crank volts into it
RD600 uses SB600, which is equal (slightly superior) to the current Intel and nVidia southbridges.