ATI R580 Crossfire " Manta " board Preview

[|3ourne]

Anandtech did a short preview of ATI's new upcoming board codenamed R580 or " Manta " . Check out the little hint on its OC ability. No more HTT lowering , 5x all the way . Looks like the fight is just beginning to warm up . Cant wait to see Nforce5 with Soundstorm2 .

http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2609

 

[FragTek]

Wirelessly posted (Nextel. Done. |: BlackBerry7520/4.0.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1)

Both chipsets are going to pwn face. Any word on these being 939 or socket F / M2?

 

[|3ourne]

Skt 939

 

[Dav0s]

whats soundstorm 2?/ hehe <--------n00b

 

[bloodthirst]

First and foremost, the RD580 breaks the HTT barrier in overclocking. Overclockers are used to having to drop HTT to 3X or 600HTT for their highest overclocks because the limit on current AMD HTT is 1000. RD580 requires no drop in HTT for even the highest overclocks. We were able to achieve overclocks in excess of 300 with HTT set at 5X. Utilities which showed HTT frequency indicated we were actually running at greater than 1600 HTT at these settings.

It is clear ATI has found a way around the current AMD limitation of 1000HTT, which will be a breath of fresh air to those trying to squeeze the most performance from their Athlon 64 processor. So how well does RD580 overclock? We can't quote exact numbers, but we can tell you the RD580 BIOS has not yet been tweaked for memory compatibility or top memory performance. We also used our own known OCZ PC3200 Platinum Rev. 2 dimms in testing since we are very familiar with how they perform. Even with the untweaked BIOS, we still reached overclocks even higher than the excellent performance of the Crossfire AMD Reference board! We can only speculate where this board might end up, but it is already a very exciting overclocker.

yay this does look extremely good im exited :wavey:

 

[FragTek]

Skt 939

Oh jesus i think i just creamed my pants... urgh