PIC of ATI RS480 Ref. Board for AMD64

[GTaudiophile]

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[jpeyton]

Not a big fan of actively (noisy) cooled northbridges.

 

[bluemax]

This could be the one with integrated Radeon 9600. That would be nice. 🙂

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Not a big fan of actively (noisy) cooled northbridges.

That puny little heatsink could be changed to a bigger passive one easily.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

that would put the smack down on the intel and nv integrated chips hahah

 

[Lyfer]

Looks like a huge Radeon graphix card.🙂

 

[Tab]

Its looks interesting, the thing that really pleases me is the VIA Vinyl Audio, hopefully that'll be a good solution. The unidentified solt seems to be Audio/Modem Riser... Who knows... I hope we'll be able to get some benchmarks soon.

 

[coolred]

Man when are we gonna see some more info on these boards. I love ATI, and assuming it performs up to par, would love to get an ATI powered motherboard. According to the latest issue of CPU magazine, the onboard IGP on the ATI board was crazy fast.

3DMarik93 of 1746, compared to a 1250 on a 915 chipset, with the 915 having a faster processor then the ATI board.
Commanche 4 22.69 and doom 3 at 12.2, using thier standard parameters, Unfortunately I don't know what those are.
They said the Intel IGP was unable to play these games, and they said with a fast enough CPU they wouldn't be surprised if Doom3 was playable at 640x480 on the ATI IGP. So if the rest of the board is up to snuff, then ATI could have something. Now all we need is for nV to start making stand alone sound cards with soundstorm.