Värt att vänta på RD600?

Tidigare startad discussion: http://www.sweclockers.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5...

*1333Mhz FSB support

*Dual Channel DDR2-1066 support (Split Channel Mode to lower the latency)

*Memory clock is independent to the FSB

*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.

*ASM for Windows platform, it's like the nTune by nVidia, providing tweaking options including FSB, Memory Clock, PCIe Clock, Memory Timings and Voltage Adjustment.

*48 PCI-E Lanes and supports for 3 PCI-E slots, 2 for CrossFire and 1 for Physics Acceleration.

*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. (Som nu sägs vara September)

*Connectorless Crossfire (Improvement for X1800/1900 also)

Vad Fugger@XS hade att säga om kortet:

"I was able out muscle the XBX board at equil FSB and speed.

The caps close to the CPU socket are too close and too tall on existing design, this needs to be changed before release. Hopefuly DFI and other mfg's will make corrections.

Very strong board with stable power. The vdimm goes up to 2.5v

ASM is a nice util that gives you a bit more control that anyone here is used to. Some stuff I have not yet figured out. I do think there is a way to adjust memory timing in ASM but it may not be fully functional yet.

Overclocking the PCIE resulted in no stability problems at max setting, normally on Intel I would have problems around 115Mhz.

Onboard RAID is very strong. HDTach with dual RaptorX drives would pull around 120MB/s on the Intel boards and 160MB/s + on the ATI board.

I have not played with dongle-less CF yet.

HDMI is built in"

Mer info

"ATI "Conroe" Benchmarks Surface

Documents containing ATI lab testings on "Conroe" overclocking and performance surface

A non-confidential document of Conroe benchmarks on Intel and ATI motherboards surfaced earlier this week. RD600, which we reported on DailyTech yesterday, was the primary motherboard featured in the testing, but ATI also featured an Intel 975X motherboard for comparison.

The slides contain benchmarks for 3DMark2001SE, 3DMark03, 3DMark05, 3DMark06, Fear 1.03, FarCry and Everest 2.80. Unfortunately, these benchmarks are for the most part GPU bound, but what is most interesting about these slides is the overclocking. The benchmarks include the testing of a Core E6300 (1.86GHz 1066FSB) processor running at 2.4GHz with a 1372MHz front side bus.

Intel will lift a general embargo about Conroe on June 4th, 2006, and the company roadmaps have detailed CPU pricing for July 23, 2006."

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2657

Framtida RD600 kort:

Infinity CFX1150/G - ATi RD600+SB600
LP UT RD600-T2R/G - ATi RD600+SB650

Svårt att förutse, särskilt med Ati. Men senast igår rapporterades det om September för DFI.

Yorii: Varför Ajjabajja? Enligt de flesta hårdvaru guru's så tycker de att öka sin PCIE frekvens ger dem högre klock på GPU'n. Sen om det gäller när de kyler korten med flytande kväve eller inte, och klockar korten till hastigheter vi bara kan drömma om vet jag inte.

Ny info: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=108454

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/07/25/dfi_confirms_upcoming_rd600_chipset_for_intel

Japp inte senare än det hoppas jag, men ändå så verkar Ati inte ha så mycket att tävla emot när det gäller överklockning. När det gäller nVidia's intel moderkort så verkar de inte vara nån 10 poängare på överklocknings sidan.