ATI M/B Grouper really cool and it packs a punch

Zinn2b · Post by **Zinn2b** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:19 am

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2481&p=3

Check out whats coming from Ati this week

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:41 am

Yeah looks cool
4Volts vdimm
~1.6 vcore
+ all the OC options you need

Not to mention great I/O performance
even IDE HDD's aren't left out

Did you notice that DFI are also going to make their own version?
Seem the refernce design is killer.. IF DFI can tweak it further then forget the NForce 4!!!

Seems ATI even with ULI for their chipset are onto a winner

The only let-down was the highest FSB reached, 302Mhz is great but if it could keep up with DFI's NForce 4 here then there would be no competition. Who knows what the other board makers can do?

I'm stuck with a P4 3.0E for the next 6mths or so
Not going to switch to AMD until the X2 chips become mainstream
(can't afford to go PCIe aswell as new mobo,CPU etc.)

Merlin · Post by **Merlin** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:17 pm

Sry I am a noob I guess. What exactly is this? Is it a Mother board with an ATI chipset or is it ATI on board Video?

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:26 pm

its a motherboard using the new ATI chipset both the single pci-e 16x and the dual pci-e for "Cross Fire" All i can say is on paper the sappire board looks like one hell of a competitor for DFI, i know i want to slap one into my test system and find out

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:37 pm

I'd love to get my hands on one myself, but I still haven't gotten any type of positive responce from them yet.............

But I'll keep on trying though..........

shwA · Post by **shwA** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:54 pm

Yeah, it certainly looks impressive...