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Company AMD recently annoced its plans with respect to chipset ATI with the support Of crossFire and processors AMD of proper name. Chipset ATI crossFire xpress 1600 and ATI crossFire xpress 3200 will be named AMD 480X CrossFire and AMD 580X CrossFire respectively.
Its results that buyers begin to see products under the new trade marks on stores. Yesterday this possibility appeared for the Japanese buyers, who obtained chance to examine the motherboard asus M2A-MVP, based on chipset AMD 480X CrossFire.
The most amusing, that the logotype on the chipset of north bridge as before has the trade marks ATI and Radeon xpress. in the assortment of production asus there is more expensive motherboard M2R32-MVP, based on the chipset AMD 580X CrossFire. The basic difference between two chipsets, let us recall, it consists in the work of the graphic slots: PCI express x8 + PCI express x8 for AMD 480X CrossFire and PCI express x16 + PCI express x16 for AMD 580X CrossFire.
On motherboard asus M2A-MVP the second is the upper slot PCI express x16 with black color. If it is not occupied with the card expansion, instruction requires installing special terminator. then is achieved the commutation of the lines PCI express, and the primary slot PCI express x16 begins to work in the regime PCI express x16. The second slot PCI express x16 makes possible to use expansion card with the interface PCI express x8, PCI express x4 or PCI express x1.
Here is the new name of chipset - it is prescribed in the instruction and on the box with the motherboard:
The cost of this motherboard in Japan is $110-115. This is one of the cheapest motherboard with the support Of crossFire and processors AMD socket AM2. Related Products :
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