ATI?s Chipsets for AMD64 with DirectX 9 Graphics Uncovered

[NFS4]

ATI?s Chipsets for AMD64 with DirectX 9 Graphics Uncovered

 

[Sid59]

wow. i was just thinking " why isn't ATI in the chipset game for AMD CPUs? They could bundle their Radeon 9600 IGP and have a solid all-in-one package. It'd beat the crap outta intel extreme and Geforce something MX."

Great move. I hope their chipset prove great and alot of 3rd parties adapt it. No more AGP and more SATA connectors coming.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Their RS300 chipset, aside from the shortcomings of the southbridge, is pretty solid. Good move, ATi!

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Erm, OMGz? 9600IGP? Last I heard was the 9100IGP for Intel.

Wonder how much it's gonna be?

- M4H

 

[MDE]

More players in the market = more high-quality stuff and lower prices. Gotta love it .

 

[Ionizer86]

SB has SATA, but where's the 1394, lan, etc?

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
More players in the market = more high-quality stuff and lower prices. Gotta love it .

Or, more frequent driver releases, with less testing by "real" beta testers, and more testing done by regular users.

 

[MDE]

Confirmation from AMD?

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Erm, OMGz? 9600IGP? Last I heard was the 9100IGP for Intel.

Wonder how much it's gonna be?

- M4H

Might be a neutered 9600 adapted for IGP, like 2 pipes, lower clock speed etc. And memory is going to be slow too.
Won't be all that great, they have to keep transistor count fairly low.

 

[Chaotic42]

This is OT, so forgive me.

Is AMD making a chipset for the AMD64/Opteron? I haven't been keeping up, but my next system will probably be Opteron in a few years, and I'm not putting a VIA board in my system.

 

[Peter D]

Sweeeet..

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
This is OT, so forgive me.

Is AMD making a chipset for the AMD64/Opteron? I haven't been keeping up, but my next system will probably be Opteron in a few years, and I'm not putting a VIA board in my system.

Yep, the AMD 8xxx family of chips, they've split it up into a bunch of chips, PCI-X tunnels, AGP tunnel, etc etc.
Don't remember which ones are the same chip and not.

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Erm, OMGz? 9600IGP? Last I heard was the 9100IGP for Intel.

Wonder how much it's gonna be?

- M4H

9600 IGP. probably the same sort the high-end laptops have. not new.

 

[txxxx]

Originally posted by: Amorphus

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Erm, OMGz? 9600IGP? Last I heard was the 9100IGP for Intel.

Wonder how much it's gonna be?

- M4H

9600 IGP. probably the same sort the high-end laptops have. not new.

I thought the laptop 9600 were discrete seperate entities?

Thats what they mention about Dell's anyway.

 

[bluemax]

Freakin' AWESOME!! BAD time for me to have bought a mobo/cpu combo...

Oh well.... we won't see these systems on the market for a few months yet and the AMD64 chips is still too expensive for me. It'd be cheaper for me to get a cheap-o Sapphire 9600NP.

But a year from now - this will be THE bargain system to get!