Dual G5 2.4 GHz with PCI Express / HyperTransport / nForce4 announced

[Eug]

Not from Apple though. See here:

Apple U3H / IBM CPC925

* 2x Elastic Interface for dual PPC970FX
* 128Bit DDR400 memory interface
* AGP8X
* 16Bit Hypertransport

nForce4 (SLI)

* 16Bit 1000MHz Hypertransport interface
* 20 PCI-Express lanes, different configurations possible (e.g. 2 gfxcards)
* Standard 32Bit 33MHz PCI bus with up to 6 slots
* 10 USB 2.0 ports
* RAIDable storage controllers
o 2 channels of parallel ATA-133
o 4 ports of Serial ATA 3Gb/s
* AC'97 sound with up to 8 channels and dual S/PDIF output with AC3 or Stereo PCM up to 24Bit 96KHz
* Gigabit Ethernet with CPU offloading engine

Picture

 

[mechBgon]

:Q

 

[mechBgon]

but no SCSI? 🙁

 

[Eug]

Under 200 Watts max for the whole shebang.

Here is the PDF.

By the way, the article I linked above just talks about the Northbridge being the CPC925 from IBM, which is also called the U3H by Apple. This is used in both the IBM eServer BladeCenter machines, as well as Macs. Not sure about the U3H, but IIRC IBM said Apple designed the previous U3 controller, and IBM just fabbed it.