I just found my new mother board for R600!!!

[Sound_Card]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813123022










Epox baby,

16gb of max memory
AMD/ATI north/south bridge chipsets

[Ristogod]

AMD board?

Seems like a limitation for what a R600 may be capable of.

[Sound_Card]

Originally Posted by Ristogod

AMD board?

Seems like a limitation for what a R600 may be capable of.

I figured someone would say that, but AM2 socket will support AM3 CPU's. So It's a good investment in the long run. I also dont like any of the Intel chipsets out there. They perform better than the 680i Nforce and suck less power, but I always find something on one of the mother boards that turns me off. Like those old outdated power caps. The AMD crossfire epox board above has all High quality power caps and the xpress chipsets suck even less power than the Intel ones when on full load.

Over all, it's a very clean looking board with that well known epox quality.

[Iron99]

The expansion slot lay out is nice! Nice find Sound_Card .

[JethroBodine]

Originally Posted by Ristogod

AMD board?

Seems like a limitation for what a R600 may be capable of.

CPU isn't a limiting factor on modern games that benefit from a high end card like the R600, unless you're talking about 12X10 or lower resolution. (and you have to wonder why anyone would buy a R600 to game at 12X10)

Check out my comparison of X2 4600+ benches to X6800 benches and you'll see that for 16X12 4X16X and up, a $200 4600+ does the job of a $1000 X6800. It's all about the graphics these days.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s...st=0&p=148733&

[nomore]

Originally Posted by Sound_Card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813123022

why do you wanna get this ????
I heard rd690 is coming in February.!
Can't you wait 2-3 weeks???

btw, this motherboard doesn't have a slot for physics card.
I thought you wanted to go for 1 +1 ???
what happened?

[Sound_Card]

Originally Posted by nomore

why do you wanna get this ????

Why not is the qustion.

Lot's of features, and will have long life because of support of AM3 processors. The lay out is perfect.

I heard rd690 is coming in February.!

I also heard that RD600 was comming out in october.

Can't you wait 2-3 weeks???

I most likely will. But this board is the first runner up.

btw, this motherboard doesn't have a slot for physics card.

Yes it dose. All you need for Physics is a SM3.0 card and at least two PCIe slots. That third PCIe slot you are thinking of is for 2+1. 1+1 will work on any of today's crossfire xpress chipsets.

[nomore]

Originally Posted by Sound_Card

Why not is the qustion.

Lot's of features, and will have long life because of support of AM3 processors. The lay out is perfect.

wait, where does it say it supports AM3 processors????

Originally Posted by Sound_Card

I also heard that RD600 was comming out in october.

hehehe that was below the belt.

Originally Posted by Sound_Card

Yes it dose. All you need for Physics is a SM3.0 card and at least two PCIe slots. That third PCIe slot you are thinking of is for 2+1. 1+1 will work on any of today's crossfire xpress chipsets.

where does it say it supports a physics card???
I don't see any info about that as well.

you sure that the physics work with every crossfire motherboard that has 2 pcie slots?
thanx.

[Sound_Card]

Originally Posted by nomore

wait, where does it say it supports AM3 processors????

It has already been stated by AMD that AM3 processors will work on AM2 sockets. The catch is that DDR3 will not.

hehehe that was below the belt.

ha,
I believe the 580x is the AMD version of the RD600 for Intel. So no below the belt here.

where does it say it supports a physics card???
I don't see any info about that as well.

you sure that the physics work with every crossfire motherboard that has 2 pcie slots?
thanx.

I'm 100% positive that it work with any crossfire board.

[nomore]

Originally Posted by Sound_Card

It has already been stated by AMD that AM3 processors will work on AM2 sockets. The catch is that DDR3 will not.

so I can use AM2 motherboard and a AM3 processor with ddr2??
or is that logically impossible?

Originally Posted by Sound_Card

ha,
I believe the 580x is the AMD version of the RD600 for Intel. So no below the belt here.

yes it was below the belt.
since october already passed.

Originally Posted by Sound_Card

I'm 100% positive that it work with any crossfire board.

are you dead sure??
I don't remember reading anything about that.

[SSXeon]

Cool looken board, too bad its an amd. j/k Are AM3s quad core?

[Sound_Card]

Originally Posted by nomore

so I can use AM2 motherboard and a AM3 processor with ddr2??
or is that logically impossible?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM3

AMD has confirmed that AM3 processors will work in AM2 motherboards; however, AM2 processors will not be compatible with AM3 motherboards. This is because AM2 chips lack the proper memory controller for DDR3 memory (since AMD chips have the memory controller directly on the processor itself, instead of on the Northbridge), and AM3 processors will have a memory controller that supports both DDR2 and DDR3 (though it lacks the capability of running both at the same time). This has the benefit that anyone who buys a Socket AM2 motherboard will be able to freely upgrade to any AM3 processor in the future, ensuring that AM2 will have a long future and not become obsolete too soon.

Socket AM3 is assumed to be introduced with the AMD's next generation processors based on AMD K8L micro-architecture.

are you dead sure??
I don't remember reading anything about that.

arh, I'M POSITIVE.

I even asked Dave B.

let me pull the message...

[Sound_Card]

Originally Posted by Dave Baumann

Havok Physics itself just requires an SM3.0 board. There are several was this can be realised - either as a pass in the rendering processes or on a separate board.

So, if its operating as a pass in the rendering process then it will work with a single card, or two in Crossfire (both the rendering and physics load is distributed across the cards). Alternatively you can have physics rendering on an entirely separate board, so here you could have a single graphics and a single physics (1+1) or Crossfire and physics (2+1). The advantage of having physics on a separate board is that you can use a different performance card for that than the main 3D card.

[nomore]

Originally Posted by Sound_Card

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM3

but at the top of that page, it states;

It may contain preliminary or speculative information, and may not reflect the final version of the product.

btw, when is AMD planning to release AM3??

Originally Posted by Sound_Card

arh, I'M POSITIVE.

I even asked Dave B.

let me pull the message...

cool thanx for the info.
I had to rep you.

[SSXeon]

Originally Posted by Sound_Card

Yup thats why i still have my X1900XT lying here to stair at................. FOR NOW

[Wotan81]

[quote=Sound_Card;1334766256]
ha,
I believe the 580x is the AMD version of the RD600 for Intel. So no below the belt here. QUOTE]

The RD580 is actually newer than the RD600, adn has some features that the RD600 doesn't have. Like both Pci-e run at 16x in Crossfire but 8x for the RD5600.

[Hapatingjaky]

After reading the specs and **** and comparing it too the pic where is the stated ESATA support, that board shows no ESATA ( which I use ).

But for god sakes get rid of the IDE, Parallel Port and Serial Port. Thats comptelely useless now. With the release of affordable SATA DVDRW's and such I find supplying IDE controlers to be a waste ( given that there are some who are slow to adopt ). And all printers and PC's come USB standard. Serial ports on the other hand I think the last time I used a serial port was to connect a mouse like 20 years ago... This could also cut down on costs of the boards.

[fO Che -USA-]

I don't like were the atx and 12v power are but otherwise looks very decent. And Amd is teh suxxors maximus right now don't you know that....lol j/k I really hope k8l smashes my sh1t to pieces because im a little tired of this setup.

[Sound_Card]

Originally Posted by fO Che -USA-

I don't like were the atx and 12v power are but otherwise looks very decent. And Amd is teh suxxors maximus right now don't you know that....lol j/k I really hope k8l smashes my sh1t to pieces because im a little tired of this setup.

Man, One thing that scares the **** out of me about going to Intel is that socket 775. I'm already know it's a short matter of time before Intel kills this off as this socket has been used for some time. It's reaching it's limits on what it can do.
Another thing that scares me about Intel is their Memory infrastructure. They are still(god forbid them for this...) on that old ass FSB. The memory controller is in the chipsets and and Intel pretty much relies mostly on large amounts of L2 cache to keep from dipping into the front side bus.


With AM2, I get good life because of future AM3 support, and I also get very high performance per watt as the new AMD AM2 65nm Brisbane only consumes a mere 35w. Roughly 30-40w less than conroe which is outstanding. Not only that, the AMD/ATI north bridge chipsets consume the least power over any of Intel chipsets, and alot more power saving over Nvidia's overrated 680i while performance is dead even and features are richer. This epox board has my eyes the most as the lay out is dead perferct for me. Ofcourse I can do without the printer jack, and the mouse/keyboard ports and IDE ports for more firewire and USB2.0 ports. But it dose not scratch me one bit, because I really dont picture myself ever using 10 USB ports or more than one Firewire ports.


With that said, I'm pretty sure of my self that K8L is going to return the favor to Intel.