[McG]

ATi's upcoming RD600 chipset will ship as the CrossFire Xpress 3200 and, like nVidia's nForce 500 series, support automatic overclocking. RD600 can be paired with the South bridge SB600 for utmost performance. CrossFire performance will be greatly enhanced with its Xpress route within the chipset itself, supporting Dual Channel PCIe. ATi expects to continue selling chipsets for Intel systems until the fourth quarter of this year at the very least. The chipset will run the frontside bus at up to 1500MHz, leaked presentation slides posted on a DailyTech report show, while the PCI Express bus can run at up to 25 per cent above standard speed - the better for CrossFire cards that connect solely across the PCI-E bus. RD600 will support three x16 PCI Express connectors - two for graphics and the third for a graphics card doubling up as a physics processor. The RD600 chipset will support Conroe, Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs and it is expected in the next few months - probably before the beginning of Q4 2006. Boards based on the part will retail for around $150.

RD600 (p)review

ECS + RD600

Link: 1, 2

Izvor: OCWorkbench, HKEPC, Bit-Tech, VR-Zone, TweakTown i RegHardware