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RD600 Question

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Will the RD600 (Same as RD580, but for Intel procs) support DDR2, or will it be DDR? I'm going to blow a sh**load of money on 2GB of Corsair XMS2 DDR2-675, and I want to make sure that I won't get screwed over, come upgrade time.
 
I can't see a reason why it wouldn't be DDR2. DDR2 is pretty much the only memory used in modern Intel chipsets.
 
n00btard said:
Will the RD600 (Same as RD580, but for Intel procs) support DDR2, or will it be DDR? I'm going to blow a sh**load of money on 2GB of Corsair XMS2 DDR2-675, and I want to make sure that I won't get screwed over, come upgrade time.
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Actually it's called "RS600". It will launch sometime in March. I hope Asus is the first one to market with an RS600 Intel X16 CrossFire motherboard.
 
n00btard said:
Will the RD600 (Same as RD580, but for Intel procs) support DDR2, or will it be DDR? I'm going to blow a sh**load of money on 2GB of Corsair XMS2 DDR2-675, and I want to make sure that I won't get screwed over, come upgrade time.
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Almost all modern Socket 775 motherboards use DDR2 ram (There were a few 915 chipset motherboards that used DDR or DDR/DDR2).
 
Where the heck are the RS600 motherboards? I really want to have an Intel X16 CrossFire setup.
 
Okay, most of you seem baffled by ATI's little press release.
http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=608109
High-end motherboards are made of two chips. One is the northbridge, and one is the southbridge. The northbridge is the RD600, and the southbridge is the SB650. NONE EXIST YET. These two combined are called a "chipset". The chipset doesn't have a name yet, but is expected be something along the lines "Xpress 3200 Intel Edition". It will have awsome overclocking features, and enough PCI-Express lanes to have 3 full 16x PCI-Express slots. Two will be for Crossfire mult-GPU rendering, and 1 will be for a graphics card, that with just some software updates, will run physics processes. It is built from the ground up for Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors (Conroe), and of course, will support DDR2 exclusively.
 
Oh, wow, I'm sorry. Major thread mine. No wonder you seemed so confused...

Sorry.

BTW. Some food for thought. The Xpress 1600 has 2 8x PCIe slots. The Xpress 3200 has 2 16x PCIe slots. This thing, depending on the vendor, can have 3 16x PCIe lanes. Maybe it shoudl be called the Radeon Xpress 4800...
 
Joobot said:
Okay, most of you seem baffled by ATI's little press release.
http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=608109
High-end motherboards are made of two chips. One is the northbridge, and one is the southbridge. The northbridge is the RD600, and the southbridge is the SB650. NONE EXIST YET. These two combined are called a "chipset". The chipset doesn't have a name yet, but is expected be something along the lines "Xpress 3200 Intel Edition". It will have awsome overclocking features, and enough PCI-Express lanes to have 3 full 16x PCI-Express slots. Two will be for Crossfire mult-GPU rendering, and 1 will be for a graphics card, that with just some software updates, will run physics processes. It is built from the ground up for Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors (Conroe), and of course, will support DDR2 exclusively.
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Fugger at XS has a M/B with this chipset . and DFI is getting ready to release this chipset on a M/B
 
Joobot said:
Okay, most of you seem baffled by ATI's little press release.
http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=608109
High-end motherboards are made of two chips. One is the northbridge, and one is the southbridge. The northbridge is the RD600, and the southbridge is the SB650. NONE EXIST YET. These two combined are called a "chipset". The chipset doesn't have a name yet, but is expected be something along the lines "Xpress 3200 Intel Edition". It will have awsome overclocking features, and enough PCI-Express lanes to have 3 full 16x PCI-Express slots. Two will be for Crossfire mult-GPU rendering, and 1 will be for a graphics card, that with just some software updates, will run physics processes. It is built from the ground up for Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors (Conroe), and of course, will support DDR2 exclusively.
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Really DDR2 exclusively . Thats not whats going around . This chipset is said to also be DDR3 ready. I will try to find the link. Here's the link to fugger. Also use the link from turtle 1 in the thread that will get you an amd review of the chipset for amd cpu's This is using the RD600 and the SB 600 the SB650 will be released later this summer.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=101642&page=2


This link will show you that this chipset will also support DDR3 when its available. Suppled with a M/B pic for your pleasure. Its not the top secret DFI M/B but it is a ATI chipset mother board

http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=611688&starttime=0&endtime=0

http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/10143
 
He's quoted as aying it there, but I can't find where he originally said it.
Why would he have one? The one at Computex wasn't even stable!
 
Look fella Fugger is a world renouned O/C . He said he has one . Do more search at that forum . Fugger has no reason to lie . He is the owner of that site you know. It seems that you don't like ATI . Well thats to bad. Fugger says this is the M/B to have and I believe him . Wait a little longer and there will be plenty of reviews. So i think I have given enough links to show that ATI has the RS600 and SB600 chipset ready and M/B makers are building the M/B as we speak. Except it or not its up to you but don't spread fud about it not being available unless you know for fact it isn't. I gave you links that support my position now if you could give links to support your position I would read them.
 
Joobot said:
He's quoted as aying it there, but I can't find where he originally said it.
Why would he have one? The one at Computex wasn't even stable!
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A link to the one at Computex one not being stable would be a good start.
 
I remember reading somewhere that they were trying to start the Toy Shop demo on an RD600, but it was failing. I contacted Fugger, and he assured me that his was very stable. He also says that the ATI System Management (ASM) overclocking tool works on other ATI chipsets too. When I said DDR2 exclusively, I meant as opposed to DDR.
 
I'm liking this chipset more and more, especially since my chat with Fugger. I never doubted him having one, just questioned why. At first I hated the reference layout, then thought about it.

PCIe x1
PCIe x16
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PCIe x1
PCIe x16
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PCI

You could have two double-wide graphics cards not cover any slots, a sound card, a future PCIe version of PhysX, and room for 1 more thing, maybe a future PCIe soundcard.
 
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