Computex 2005 Day 2 - ULi's new Athlon 64 Chipset, G70, CrossFire & more
by Anand Lal Shimpi on June 1, 2005 1:57 AM EST- Posted in
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Jetway and their Unique Motherboards
Jetway had a number of unique boards at their booth; first off, there was a motherboard that featured both Socket-939 and Socket-754 support. Obviously you can either use one or the other, but it still offers a good deal of flexibility.
ECS had a similar design about a year ago, so it's nothing too new but it is still interesting to see.
Jetway also showcased a Socket-939 PCI Express motherboard based on VIA's K8T890 chipset:
The K8T890 has been having a lot of problems according to motherboard makers, which explains why we have yet to see any real availability of boards based on the chipset.
Below is Jetway's Socket-754 motherboard with both PCI Express and AGP support:
The peculiar thing about this motherboard is that it is based on NVIDIA's nForce4 chipset, which doesn't support AGP. We didn't see any other chips on the motherboard, so we can only assume that the AGP slot is little more than a PCI slot with a different connector.
Final Words
We've already covered the vast majority of the show, but there is still more to come - including our annual industry report based on feedback from manufacturers at the show.
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erwos - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
Quick question for you, Anand: when you say DDR200 in reference to the i-RAM card, do you mean PC3200 or PC1600?It would seem to make zero sense to use PC3200 RAM, when the PCI bus is already limiting you to 133mb/s anyways. I hope they're using low-clocked RAM (makes more sense!), which is cheaper anyways...
I guess there's some latency differences, but at the nanosecond range, who's going to notice?
-Erwos
ryanv12 - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
#4 - Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I want to upgrade my processor but would like to hang onto my 6800GT for a while. I hope that board makes its way to the US, because it would be a perfect solution for me.bersl2 - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
lol on ABIT's nuke button.Oh joy, DRM rears its ugly head again.
erwos - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
So, does this mean the Shuttle SN26P got cancelled? Damn.semo - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
if the nvidia g70 card is a single slot solution than the rumor that the g70 will burn 150w cannot be true right. anyone know what is the actual power rating for the g70?mjz - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
lets see some real world tests done with the gigbyte ram drive :pplewis00 - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
That all looks quite exciting, the thing which caught my eye was the Pentium M XPC. I wonder now if Shuttle do one they'll get it right (Aopen's was cool but no SATA support...). Anyone know the model number for it?flatblastard - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
congratualtions=congratulationsflatblastard - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
Whew, that's was a lot of coverage, anand! I'll have to admit though, I was more interested in the vanilla Xpress 200 motherboards than crossfire/r520/g70/blah/blah/yawn.....Did you happen to notice any new Xpress 200 + socket 939 mobos? Even if you didn't have a chance to cover them, I'd be interested to know if you've seen/heard anything new. Well, congratualtions on another job well done.SynthDude2001 - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
That ULi chipset/motherboard with support for both AGP and PCI-Express really caught my eye. It would be a nice upgrade path for those of us still stuck with slower CPU's (Athlon XP in my case), but not quite ready to upgrade our high-end AGP video card yet (6800GT in my case).