Darn...about SATA

[AtomicDude512]

I hope the Athlon 64 chipsets get SATA built into them like the intel ICH5.

 

[dowxp]

having sata would be the last thing i'd worry about.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Heh, the first thing to be worried about would be, perhaps, having Athlon64's in the first place.

The already announced information about all the K8 chipsets don't have anything about SATA in them. Remember that they were all designed many months ago, before SATA started pushing into the mainstream. The first boards for Athlon64 will probably have SATA via an extra chip like current boards, so that the chipset makers can sell chips and mainboard makers can get K8 boards out the door without having to do a redesign, then later they'll develop on-chip SATA.

 

[AtomicDude512]

Darn, if it was another external chip it would have to take PCI bandwidth. But, if the Athlon 64 does really have 6.4GBps PCI bandwidth than that wont be a problem...

 

[buleyb]

Am I mistaken that it doesn't have 6.4GBps PCI bandwidth? I don't remember a different PCI bus speed with those...that'll wait until PCI-X / PCI-Express

 

[Lord Evermore]

Yeah, PCI bus speed is going to be dependent on the type of bus they use. If you buy a consumer board, you're probably going to get a standard 32bit/33MHz PCI bus (AMD's 8000 chipset with the 8111 southbridge specifically states that), which is the same as current consumer boards. The 8131 chipset is a PCI-X tunnel, so you can get the higher bandwidths and compatibility with PCI 2.1 devices, but don't expect that on anything but server-intended boards for a long time.

So SATA still isn't truly going to enter the really high-end world for a while either. We'll see it on desktop boards first, but we'll probably see those SATA-integrated chipsets before an Athlon64 is available anyway.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Im hoping for SCSI. Ill look, but if anyone has some links handy on chipset info, please post them or pm me with them.

EDIT: And yeah, SCSI probably has nothing to do with chipsets, but I dont care as much about IDE as I do truely great performance