CPU/Mobo AMD AM2 News Thread

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And hopefully by then we'll see ddr2-800 with 4-4-4 timings. one more question, do u think we'll see another revision on AM-2 before AMD move to 65 nm or is revision F gonna be it?
 
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^^ i was talking about 400mhz@ 4-4-4 not 800Mhz .... :)
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Yea i know. i just said that by then hopefully well see 800mhz as well at 4-4-4. man my memory is bad :S i was gonna ask another question in the last post but forgot to. here goes anyway. whats the vote for HT speed. 266*4 = 1.06 Ghz or 333*3=1Ghz?
 
This week Silicon Integrated Systems announced that its SiS761GX chipset, which supports the upcoming AMD "AM2" pinout, will be used in motherboards from PC Chips and others.

The PC Chips A33G motherboard is expected to be in mass production by the end of March, 2006, the company said.

Advanced Micro Devices has not formally announced the new AM2 pinout, which is expected to use a different array of 940 pins, making the new socket incompatible with previous versions. The new socket will support new AMD Athlon64 X2s, among others.

The key, however, is that the new socket format will reportedly coincide with new AMD CPUs which will support an integrated DDR2 memory controller, an upgrade from the current DDR1 version. According to SIS, the PCI Express-based 761GX chipset will support two DDR2 module slots, for a total of 2 Gbytes of memory. Although reports have circulated that state that the AM2 memory controller will support DDR2-800 memory, the SIS chipset officially supports just DDR2-667, DDR2-533, and DDR2-400 memories.

Few details of the chipset itself were released, although it will contain the SIS integrated Mirage1 Graphic Engine which supports memory sizes up to 128MB, and a PCI Express x16 connector.

Traditionally, PC Chips motherboards have been designed for low-end PCs, although the board maker did not announce a price for the A33G board.
 
Lol. Thats ABit for you.

Anyways, thats some sick colouring, literally :P.

I can only see 1 IDE Port on that thing too :O.
 
Now apparently its not an abit board, but rather an MSI one. Its the K9N Diamond which was seen earlier. yup 7 SATA but just one PATA.
 
^^ i can see abit written in the middle of the board :) .... and there are not floppy connectors also .... :-/
 
Well yes.... but The IQ firstly said ABIT... so that was that... anyways good news is mobo makers are ready with boards for it... and I hope with new tweaked samples they really improve overclocking with DDR2 and squash any bugs before finally launching.....
 
The world exclusive test of the AM2 socket based AMD X2-4800 platform - using the GF6150 entry level chip. It uses DDR2-667 and a new kind of heatsink fan. Compared to a DDR 6150 entry level motherboard and a nForce 4 chipset and DDR400, it fares well, even if it is obvious that it needs optimizing.

Tom's Hardware : AMD AM2 review

Review is in German but you want have problems in following the pictures and benchies ;)

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@Harshal, Looks like abit picture was a fake :)

So, the picture of Abit motherboard is a fake, however - the specs were semi-right: "nForce5" chipset in question is known under a name "MCP55", and its more or less the same nForce4 SLI chipset we know today, only featuring new enhancements in various sectors: it supports 20 PCIe lanes (so the two x16 slots you're seeing on a picture are electrically x16. Data throughput wise - x8), six SATA-II devices and one PATA interface, a single Gigabit Ethernet (nV GbE) and most importantly - eight-channel RealTek ALC882D High-Definition Audio chip.
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HKEPC website has pictures of the next generation Asrock AM2 riser board. As most of you would probably know, Asrock has future proofed its AMD motherboards by giving a Future port slot in which you can plug a card to upgrade. Well, the card is already out there. It is pictured on a 939SLI2-eSATA2 board from Asrock. It can accommodate up to four DDR2 DIMMs.

 
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