ATI Radeon Xpress 3200 IE (RD600)

[Masster]

The big shock is RD600 was designed for the ground up to support not only DDR-2 but also upcoming DDR-3 memory. In fact, ATI has already fully tested DDR-3 memory on RD600 and it is working fine, months ahead of before it is due to be released for public consumption. ATI are ready for DDR-3 memory whenever it enters the market, which is likely after Q2 2007, according to our sources. Since DDR-3 memory uses a different slot to DDR-2, you won’t be able to use new DDR-3 memory on current RD600 motherboards you buy this year or early next year. As well as the new memory slot, our friends in the bunker also told us that a new PCB design is required but it only requires a very small change to the internal circuitry – nothing too complex.

The motherboard we looked at last week was an ATI reference board named “Marlin”. We’re unsure of the revision number but we were told it was the latest reference version from ATI. In fact, we have been informed that motherboard makers have already started to receive the first versions of their RD600 retail boards and now they will spend a month or two tweaking the product and BIOS for maximum performance and overclocking support.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/931/

Tak nevim, je to zajimave zprava nebo neni?
Je sice super, ze RD600 je DDR3 ready, ale k cemu nam to je, kdyz je stejne potreba vymenit sloty pro pamet, protoze DDR2 pouzivaji jine?

Vyhoda by to byla, pokud by nV pro AM3 pracovala na uplne novem chipsetu a ATI by stacilo pouze vydat novou revizi uz overeneho chipsetu. Ale to se mi moc nezda a nV muze mit uplne stejne plany jako ATI. Uvidime.

[Masster]

ATI's RD600 will sport three PCIe 16X slots

ATI'S UPCOMING Intel-supporting chipset will have access to no less than three PCIe 16X slots.
This ought to be the fastest chipset for the top-performing Conroe CPUs. The irony is that it now comes from ATI, the company now owned by AMD.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33597

[Masster]

ATI's RD600 is a dead duck

Manufacturers are to blame for this, and not ATI. The chipset will be just fine but this very easily might be the last Intel based chipset from ATI. This is what the motherboard companies believe at the moment.

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

No tak to vypada, ze RD600 bude pohrbeno jeste pred tim nez vubec spatri svetlo sveta.

[mino]

No tak to vypada, ze RD600 bude pohrbeno jeste pred tim nez vubec spatri svetlo sveta.

Jj, jestli s nim nakonec vyjede pouze DFI, ma u me tahle firma velikou poklonu.

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ATi RD600 hits 520MHz FSB, NVIDIA C55 hits 510MHz