Just had to post this -may be a little excited about AMD new chip-

AMD 580X CrossFireâ„¢ Chipset - Specifications

General

* The worlds first single chip 2x16 PCI-E chipset
* Enhanced support for over-clocking, and PCI Express performance
* Fastest multi-GPU interconnect
* Coupled with SB600 for performance

CPU Interface

* Support for all AMD CPU’s: Athlon™ 64, Athlon™ 64 FX,
Athlonâ„¢ 64 X2 Dual-Core, and Sempronâ„¢ processors
* Support for 64-bit extended operating systems
* Highly overclockable and robust HyperTransportâ„¢ interface

PCI Express Interface

* 2 x16 PCI Express lanes to support simultaneous operation of
graphics cards
* Additional 4 PCI-E General Purpose Lanes for peripheral support
* Compliant with the PCI Express 1.0a Specifications

Power Management Features

* Fully supports ACPI states S1, S3, S4, and S5
* Support for AMD Cool‘n’Quiet™ technology for crisp and
quiet operation

Optimized Software Support

* Unified driver support on all ATI Radeon PCI Express discrete
graphics products
* Support for Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows® 2000, andLinux

Universal Connectivity

* A-Link Xpress II i/f to ATI northbridges; providing high
bandwidth for high speed peripherals
* 10 USB 2.0 ports
* SATA Gen 2 PHY support at 3.0Ghz with E-SATA capability
* 4 ports SATA AHCI controller supports NCQ and slumber modes
* ATA 133 controller support up to UDMA mode 6 with 2 drives (disk
or optical)
* TPM 1.1 and 1.2 compliant
* ASF 2.0 support for manageability control
* HPET (high precision event timer), ACPI 3.0, and AHCI support for
Windows Vista
* Power management engine supporting both AMD and Intel platforms
and forward compliant to MS Windows Vista
* UAA (universal audio architecture) support for High-Definition
Audio and MODEM
* PCI v2.3 (up to 6 slots)
* LPC (Low Pin Count), SPI (new flash bus), and SM (System
Management) bus management and arbitrations
* “Legacy� PC compatible functions, RTC (Real Time Clock),
interrupt controller and DMA controllers

Pepwin wrote:
> Just had to post this -may be a little excited about AMD new chip-
>
> AMD 580X CrossFireâ„¢ Chipset - Specifications


Yeah, you must be excited, it's the first time I've ever seen somebody
get excited over a chipset rather than a processor. %^)

Yousuf Khan

On 19 Dec 2006 22:41:31 -0800, "Pepwin" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Just had to post this -may be a little excited about AMD new chip-
>
>AMD 580X CrossFire™ Chipset - Specifications

Hmm.. I wonder how much "AMD" actually got into this chipset other
than the name? My guess is that it's pretty safe to say "not much" as
the design much have been 99% complete by the time of AMD's buyout of
ATI. Still, they might have got in there for a bit of the testing and
driver writting, so hopefully the quality and reliability will be
good.

> * A-Link Xpress II i/f to ATI northbridges; providing high
>bandwidth for high speed peripherals

Oops, soemone forgot to change the name on this one!


Anyway, sounds like a decent enough chipset, and ATI's last AMD-based
chipsets have been reasonable enough. Hopefully it should provide
some good competition to nVidia's solutions for AMD chipsets.
--
Tony Hill
hilla <underscore> 20 <at> yahoo <dot> ca

Yeah, you must be excited, it's the first time I've ever seen somebody
get excited over a chipset rather than a processor. %^)

Yousuf Khan

I guess it sounds a little ridiculous, but as online broadcasting comes
more of reality AMD will be ahead of other processor manufactures in
helping to delivering IPTV. I think there is a lot that can be done
with development of ATI and AMD technologies. I might be alone in
this, but I think that is where things are headed.