Any Socket 754 Radeon Xpress 200 boards announced?

[crazyeddie]

I bought an MSI RS480M2-IL and an Athlon 64 3000+ a few weeks ago, and as anybody who has read my posts about it already knows, I absolutely love it so far!

The Xpress 200 chipset has been very stable, the boards are loaded with features, and the IGP is actually useful!

I have friends who are asking me about upgrades, and I'd love to recommend this platform for them, but they don't really need Athlon 64 CPUs as they're not really big gamers or anything.

I know the Radeon Xpress 200 chipsets can support either 754 or 939 socket CPUs, but I haven't seen any socket 754 boards announced yet. Has anybody seen a product announcment from any motherboard manufacturers for such a beast?

It would seem to me that such a board would be a huge hit. It's a great IGP platform for the new Semprons and it would provide a nice upgrade path for Socket 754 Athlon 64 owners who want PCI-E graphics cards.

Just wondering what might be out there, or at least on the way. Thanks!

 

[imported_Kensai]

Haven't seen any other company's RS480 boards. Just MSI's. I'm hoping that other companys will follow their lead. But I have no knowledge of any 754 boards with an ATI chipset.

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

Powercolor (TUL) has a few announced. They look very interesting, their 754 boards use the ULI M1573 southbridge with Azalia audio and NCQ support.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I am surprised Sapphire hasn't put one out yet. I really like what ATI is doing for AMD IGP now too, after seeing this blurb here and even though it is the intel version, I am very optimistic that IGP can continue to offer excellent price to performance, which is why I used nF2 for so many builds in the past.

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

Sapphire designed one with the SB400 southbridge (there were pictures at OCWorkBench.com) but it looks they cancelled that one to go directly with the SB450.