Sapphire Radeon XPRESS 200 Enthusiast Mobo - OMFGLOOKATTHEPIX!

FragTek

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OMFG wow! I think ATI could be blowing everyone out of the water with this new chipset if it really takes off among board manufacturers.... Check the specs:

Here is a list of features and specs of this board. It's aimed squarely at the enthusiast and holds back no punches.

CPU Power Delivery:

-4 phase CPU power supply with the ability to deliver 170+ Amps

-provision for passive, water block or active air cooled mosfets (heatsink form factor is the same as the northbridge)

-voltage range to 2.7V but artificially clamped to 2.0V

-voltage increments as fine as 20 mV

Memory Power Delivery:

-upto 30 Amps delivery potential

-voltage range to 4.0V

-voltage increments as fine as 20 mV

-adjustable VTT (memory termination voltage) to +/- 10% of memory VDD

NB Power Delivery:

-NB core has it's own power rail with 4 discrete steps

HT Power Delivery:

- HT I/O has it's own power rail with 4 discrete steps

PCI-E 1.2V Power Delivery:

- PCI-E 1.2V I/O has it's own power rail with 4 discrete steps

PCI-E 1.8V Power Delivery:

- PCI-E 1.8V I/O has it's own power rail with 2 discrete steps

Board Features:

Onboard Devices:

-twin Silicon Image SI3132 SATA II w/ NCQ chips connected via PCI-E, each chip providing 2 SATA ports. (8 SATA ports total; 4 are SATAI and 4 are SATAII w/NCQ)

-Marvel Gigabit LAN connected via PCI-E

-one general purpose single lane PCI-E slot (provisioned for 1 more single lane general purpose slot if one SI3132 is not populated as a build option)

-Azalia audio support via SB450 using Realtek codec

-POST code LED display

-Firewire support with ViaVT6306

-VGA and DVI outputs via Radeon Xpress 200G (enabling upto 4 monitor outputs using an ATI add in card and ATI Surroundview)

-onboard power and reset switches

-onboard VID code LED display

Overclocking Options:

-HTT frequency upto 500 MHz

-All relevant memory timings and adjustments including support for new Rev E CPUs

-HT link ratios X1, X2, X3, X4,X5

-Independent PCI-E overclocking for the graphics bus

Thermal Monitoring:

-thermal monitoring of CPU power delivery circuitry, CPU, NB and ambient

That's all I can remember for now.

Here are some pictures of the motherboard and the custom Danger Den waterblocks that will be made available for sale specifically for this application.

WOWOWOWOWOWOW! :worship: Worship ATI!
 
I'm getting one... FOR SURE... With all of the matching DD waterblocks (- the CPU block).

Goodbye nForce, hello Radeon!
 
When I heard about ATI entering and saw a review of this chipset a while ago, I knew it was gonna be good.
 
I need this board like a fat kid needs a god damn cupcake.

ETA for this specific board should be about 2-3 weeks from now hopefully no longer than that.

There's already one board out by MSI utilizing this chipset but it's a craptastic mATX board.

Sapphire totally hit a homerun with this one I think, I've seen performance charts for this chipset and it totally rocks everyone elses world when it comes to overclocking and stock speed performance.

:worship: ATi
 
FragTek said:
I need this board like a fat kid needs a god damn cupcake.

ETA for this specific board should be about 2-3 weeks from now hopefully no longer than that.

There's already one board out by MSI utilizing this chipset but it's a craptastic mATX board.

Sapphire totally hit a homerun with this one I think, I've seen performance charts for this chipset and it totally rocks everyone elses world when it comes to overclocking and stock speed performance.

:worship: ATi

I wonder if they made it so performance of nVidia cards goes down when you use it in that board :rolleyes:
 
name='Austin' said:
I wonder if they made it so performance of nVidia cards goes down when you use it in that board :rolleyes:

That would be funny if it caused nvidia cards all kinds of problems and made them self destruct by feeding them 10000V and reclocking everything so it burns up.
 
name='vice' said:
That would be funny if it caused nvidia cards all kinds of problems and made them self destruct by feeding them 10000V and reclocking everything so it burns up.

And then you go out and buy another nVidia card
 
Then the AI chip built into the motherboard would take over your computer and hack through the internet causing a military satelite laser to slowly burn you to death along with your family, your grandma, and your new nvidia card.
 
name='vice' said:
Then the AI chip built into the motherboard would take over your computer and hack through the internet causing a military satelite laser to slowly burn you to death along with your family, your grandma, and your new nvidia card.

then you go and buy another nvidia card
 
name='Austin' said:
I wonder if they made it so performance of nVidia cards goes down when you use it in that board :rolleyes:

I thought about that too, lol.... I'm thinking I need to get rid of my 6800 GT when I get this board and go for an X850XT PE or an r520 :)
 
name='FragTek' said:
I thought about that too, lol.... I'm thinking I need to get rid of my 6800 GT when I get this board and go for an X850XT PE or an r520 :)

Ack! Never! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever!

Get an ATI card!

Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever!
 
looooooooool..... the new ATI cards rape dual 6800 Ultras in SLi though... nVidia is slippin'!

They better do something genius with the g70 / g90 chip or else I'm hittin' up the r520 with full force - 950mhz of core godness and 1gb of 2.4ghz of memory bandwidth godness, that shit will be untouchable!
 
FragTek said:
looooooooool..... the new ATI cards rape dual 6800 Ultras in SLi though... nVidia is slippin'!

They better do something genius with the g70 / g90 chip or else I'm hittin' up the r520 with full force - 950mhz of core godness and 1gb of 2.4ghz of memory bandwidth godness, that shit will be untouchable!

I'm sure nVidia will come up with something :)

I'd rather have a TNT than a R520 :D
 
Austin said:
I'm sure nVidia will come up with something :)

I'd rather have a TNT than a R520 :D

I'm just tired of this SLi shit which is a complete joke... nVidia came up with a back asswards approach to dual card gaming. You would THINK that if you were running say a 6800 GT and then spent $400 on another one and put them in SLi that you would get more than a weak ass 17% performance increase... Who the fuck wants to spend $400 for a 17% increase? NOT ME! If it were a 50%+ increase then it would definately start appealing to me more.

I love nVidia, but they need to step up there game, quick!
 
FragTek said:
I'm just tired of this SLi shit which is a complete joke... nVidia came up with a back asswards approach to dual card gaming. You would THINK that if you were running say a 6800 GT and then spent $400 on another one and put them in SLi that you would get more than a weak ass 17% performance increase... Who the fuck wants to spend $400 for a 17% increase? NOT ME! If it were a 50%+ increase then it would definately start appealing to me more.

I love nVidia, but they need to step up there game, quick!

It is a 50%+ increase..
 
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