ATI CrossFire AMD??

[jojo29]

quick question: With ATI's CrossFire AMD does this mean that ATI is starting to make their OWN motherboards??please dont flame me as im not too familiar with all aspects of this everchanging industry!

So bottomline: In the future will be able to buy an ATI Crossfire AMD motherboard made by ATI??i really want to get the Reference Board http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2542&p=3
as that got very good 'preview reviews' im really excited as i would love to get an ALL ATI rig going. Imagine:

Processor: AMD FX-xx
Mobo: ATI CrossFire AMD motherboard
GPU: ATI X-1800 x2
Memory: Geil 1GB (x2 512mb sticks)
Harddrive: 300GB Western Digital
PSU: Antec 600w TruPower

NOTE: this is just a rough early build just wanted to emphasize on the ATI stuff is all hehe

 

[ViRGE]

The board AT reviewed is what's called a "reference motherboard." When a motherboard chipset or GPU is designed, a board is also designed that implements the chip(s) so that OEM product manufacturers can have a working board designed to either manufacture or improve upon(since coming up with a board takes time, especially when you didn't design the chip it uses), and this design is called the reference board. Everyone produces reference boards for their products, but most only come up with a bare-bones design and leave it up to the OEMs to do a better board, so few companies actually sell boards, and if they do those are to OEMs(ATI for example at one point made a distinction between boards they made, which were "Built by ATI" and boards built by their OEMs, which were "Designed by ATI").

Anyhow, to cut to the chase, it's a good board design and I'm sure you'll see some OEMs sell boards based on it, but ATI won't be making motherboards for end-users(nor do I expect they'll be producing boards for OEMs either).

 

[evilharp]

Sorry, it's just a reference board. Ati doesn't have the manufacturing capacity to build motherboards at the moment.

Expect Crossfire solutions to come from the usual suspects (MSI/Asus/Gigabyte/DFI) and Sapphire.

 

[jojo29]

so i guess ill have to pick one company that best comes close to the reference board huh?/
i personally like Asus, Foxconn, and DFI in that order<hehe no flames please anywhoo what would you guys recommend??

 

[0roo0roo]

no coming closest to the reference board doesn't mean the best. its just their standard solution to the problem. others may enhance or change it for the better.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I like DFI. I noticed how DFI is combining their NF4 series with the XFire boards to offer the same overclockability features, except they fixed a bunch of stuff.

Thus the Grouper/Halibut boards by DFI will be exactly like the Rev 2.0 of the NF4 series. If I'm happy with my current DFI Ultra-D, I'm sure the Rev 2.0 could only be better =).

Hopefully no more headaches right?

 

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