Asus unveils P4SDX (Sis 655, Dual Channel DDR) REPOST, original in Mobo forum

[Athlon4all]

HardOCP has posted that he got an email this morning announcing Asus' P4SDX. The board is Dual Channel DDR333, using SiS' 655 chipset. It also has other high end features like SATA, AGP8X, etc. I personally cannot wait to see how much Dual DDR costs and how fast it is. Mid-November is the realease date for it

EDIT:Evan Lieb beat me to it in the Mobo forum. Sorry!

 

[NFS4]

PICS!

 

[GTaudiophile]

From Anand:


It'll be right around this time that Granite Bay boards will show up, and we'll have several individual reviews and/or motherboard shootouts ready. In addition to Granite Bay, we're expecting motherboards based on SiS' R658, 655, and 746 chipsets to arrive in November.

My guess is he already has GB in his hands, and we should see reviews in the next week or two. Hopefully he'll get them out before NV30DEX, I mean COMDEX.

 

[codehack2]

Originally posted by: Athlon4allI personally cannot wait to see how much Dual DDR costs and how fast it is.

Memory or the actual chipset? I was under the assumption that these boards used standard DDR modules that are availible today.

CH2

 

[FreshPrince]

Would DCDDR be faster than 32bit PC1066?

 

[fkloster]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince
Would DCDDR be faster than 32bit PC1066?

Good question...many would like to know this... I personally
AM VERY INTERESTED IN THE LATENCY OF DUAL CHANNEL DDR implementations (let alone cost)

If granite bay can pull off negligable latency increases coupled with low cost implementation...I am gonna be stoked...

 

[Athlon4all]

DCDDR does use the same PC2100 DDR modules but the bandwidth is doubled to 4.2GB/s which puts it on par in terms of sheer numbers with PC1066 on 850e. I agree with fkloster, I really would like to see how it does.

 

[Dug]

I hate waiting. BTW- pictures of the Asus SiS Dual DDR board are now up at HardOCP.

Very interesting to see how close the memory and the bridge are to the cpu.

 

[fkloster]

Hmmm rig to drool over for November:

3.06 ghz hyperthreading P4 + Asus (granite bay) mobo + 1 GB of Crucial PC-2700 Case 2-2-2 (5.4gb/s bandwidth) DCDDR = pool of drool