Be-jeebus... Thats one awsome piece of kit to come from the red camp...
Looking forward to see DFI's offering based on RD580, however based on this, an ATI route is looking mighty tempting - Especially if the 7900GTX turns out as its appearing its going to.
HTT speed from that board is just insane, how hot was the chipset sink running under load?!
Touchable with or without a glove :). Cpu wise, how much of a gain did you all get from running HTT at 5x instead of the 3x most of us run for high oc? You would think there would be a pretty big difference.
Originally Posted by RotoSequence You know, photoshop's "Auto Color" function does a wonderful job getting rid of that yellow glow from standard room lighting :)
You know, there's actually no standard room lighting involved because all shots were taken in a dark photo studio (with two rather large flashes). They were auto-levelled before the watermarks were added. Thanks for your photoshop tips though...
"It's obviously been the overclocking stuff. Interfaces are designed to run at their specified speed, but we've managed to get them to run well above specification." One of the features of the board we've seen has been the ability to run the HyperTransport bus incredibly fast. How was that possible? "If you really want to get the most out of the interface, you need to reduce the clock jitter. This is critically important on the HyperTransport bus. You need to have a really clean source. Due to the nature of HyperTransport, which operates at different clock speeds, the clean source becomes more important."
Kind of an important thing to do if they want to use the chipset on AM2; conveniently, it allows for extraordinary overclocks now, thanks to the processors already being equipped with the higher speed hypertransport spec since the first 90nm processors taped out :p
Seems like a great board, just one thing, I can't believe it doesn't have 1394b(correct me if I'm wrong, think I only saw 1394a). For being a top of the line ASUS board I think it should include that.
It looks like Ati is moving up. Cant wait to see what this does to motivate Nvidia.
It looks like a decent board, I would expect a little more from ASUS but it passes. The new chipset looks good. Didnt see any noticeable differences until it got to gaming.
Originally Posted by teamtd11 *adds to the top of my wish list* unless any other companys be anything better (looks in sapphires direction coz there PI-A9RX480 looked amazing)
The sapphire board, on top of being ludicrously overpriced, the RD580 one is seriously lacking in ports, with only four expansion slots (the new RD580 version only has one PCI slot for crying out loud!)
The power regulation circuitry may not be too good for anyone looking to do a little more than 'conventional' overclocking. I've spoken to a couple of the crazy overclockers while I've been out in Santa Clara and they've experienced vCore jumping up and down all over the place - it'll probably need a vDroop mod to stop the vCore jumping around.
Originally Posted by bigz The power regulation circuitry may not be too good for anyone looking to do a little more than 'conventional' overclocking. I've spoken to a couple of the crazy overclockers while I've been out in Santa Clara and they've experienced vCore jumping up and down all over the place - it'll probably need a vDroop mod to stop the vCore jumping around.
Fingers crossed DFI sort this out with their board ;)
Originally Posted by Bindibadgi I wish ATI would sort out their damn naming. The Xpress 200/3200 means NOTHING as most people refer to them as RD580 and 480 etc
3200 vs 200 doesnt even offer some sort of chronological order for consumers.
ATI has actually renamed Radeon Xpress 200 to CrossFire Xpress 1600, AFAIK.
Originally Posted by RotoSequence The sapphire board, on top of being ludicrously overpriced, the RD580 one is seriously lacking in ports, with only four expansion slots (the new RD580 version only has one PCI slot for crying out loud!)
i guess i will have to keep an eye out. because i am a big ati fan. so no nvidia **** will do for me lol (sorry but thats the way i am)
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Impressed is an understatement. ;)
me wants one.
Looking forward to see DFI's offering based on RD580, however based on this, an ATI route is looking mighty tempting - Especially if the 7900GTX turns out as its appearing its going to.
HTT speed from that board is just insane, how hot was the chipset sink running under load?!
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/5232/photoshopped9qm.jpg
Kind of an important thing to do if they want to use the chipset on AM2; conveniently, it allows for extraordinary overclocks now, thanks to the processors already being equipped with the higher speed hypertransport spec since the first 90nm processors taped out :p
It looks like a decent board, I would expect a little more from ASUS but it passes. The new chipset looks good. Didnt see any noticeable differences until it got to gaming.
The sapphire board, on top of being ludicrously overpriced, the RD580 one is seriously lacking in ports, with only four expansion slots (the new RD580 version only has one PCI slot for crying out loud!)
3200 vs 200 doesnt even offer some sort of chronological order for consumers.
Fingers crossed DFI sort this out with their board ;)
Don't like the sound of that lol, what happened?!
Just call it 580 and be done with it.
What the hell is Xpress anyway?? You know it's a bad naming convention when ONLY the parent company uses it when referring to products.
i guess i will have to keep an eye out. because i am a big ati fan. so no nvidia **** will do for me lol (sorry but thats the way i am)
That doesnt change the fact its a crappy name :D