ATi RD400 Chipset Slated For May Launch

[imported_humey]

Sources revealed that ATi is planning to launch their RD400 chipset next month to compete against NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition chipset. ATI RD400 is going to paired up with ULi M1573 southbridge that supports Pentium 4, Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition processors, 1066Mhz FSB, Dual Channel DDR2-667, 6 SATA RAID and Azalia Audio.

Certainly, the most anticipated feature of RD400 is the support for AMR (ATI Multi Rendering) where two different PCIe graphics cards can work hand in hand without a need for SLI-like bridge. ATi RD480 that supports AMR as well will come in the near future for AMD processors. The 2nd generation of RD400 chipset coming second half of the year will allow SMA (graphics onboard) to run in conjunction with an external PCIe graphics card. Certainly the onboard graphics will not be wasted if an external graphics card is plugged in and both will run in dual GPUs mode


http://www.vr-zone.com/


Im not a ATI fan so not really interested but take what you like from that info.

 

[imported_humey]

Sorry wrong link thats for Chipset not a standalone GPU.

Here >>>>> http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=2010&s=1

 

[ronnn]

Don't care much. I am too cheap to pay extra for a mb, just to use 2 expensive graphics cards. As soon as it costs me that type of money to game, gross console gaming here I come. I am quite interested in the next gen vid cards, which both companies should be releasing fairly soon.

 

[Avalon]

I'd just like to see some motherboards based on the excellent ATI chipset for AMD motherboards Anand reviewed that did so well. The only board that ever adopted any ATI chipset seems to be that mATX MSI board. I'm a bit dissapointed. Hopefully things will get better, and more adoption of ATI's chipsets will follow. With the added competition, maybe we'll actually get some decent mobos for next generation chipsets/sockets etc.