FIRST LOOK: ULi M1695 PCIe/AGP Socket 939 for Athlon 64
by Wesley Fink on July 13, 2005 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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As we reported form Computex, the talk of the show was ATI's new Crossfire dual-video solution for AMD and Intel. Part of that talk was the development work done with ULi on the ATI South Bridge and the cross-compatibility of the ULi South Bridge using the ATI chipset. ULi is what remains of the ALi chipset division of Acer, and this now independent chipmaker has been very busy in several arenas. In addition to South Bridges which can work with the chipsets of other manufacturers, ULi also makes single-chip and dual-chip solutions for Athlon 64.
ATI certainly had the spotlight with their new chipset, but one of the newest and most interesting chipsets introduced at Computex was also from ULi - the M1695 HyperTransport PCI Express Tunnel Chip for AMD Athlon 64 platforms.
ATI certainly had the spotlight with their new chipset, but one of the newest and most interesting chipsets introduced at Computex was also from ULi - the M1695 HyperTransport PCI Express Tunnel Chip for AMD Athlon 64 platforms.
"M1695's innovative HyperTransport tunnel architecture integrates non-blocking symmetrical HyperTransportTM 2.0 links which enables motherboard manufacturers and system integrators to pair up M1695 with other high performance HyperTransport-based chipsets and bridge devices either natively or via the HTXTM connector. When coupled with ULi's M1567 south bridge, the combination offers motherboard manufacturers the unprecedented capability to support PCI Express x16, AGP 8X, PCI graphics cards simultaneously on the same mainboard. Such capability makes it possible to create a fully surrounding virtual reality environment using multiple high resolution displays driven by the three graphics technologies residing in the same computer system."
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val - Friday, July 15, 2005 - link
#47 mino, you are pushing arguments which have nothing to do with real world. UV radiation in that level makes no harm, do not forget to hide your self on the sun. AMD fanboys started to talk about heating and all this crap, 100W bulb heats your room with 86W you wise guy.And energy efficienty? Close to here is powerplant for military research which have dedicated 2x400MNW power plant. So who cares? This is 10.000.000 PCs which is amount of families here and caring for that no PC runs 100% load all the time.
Costs? I dont know about you, but i am just out of school and even when it would be 200 euro per year difference, I CANNOT SEE THAT! And again! Show me somebody who have gaming PC running games 24/7.
So caring for energy and heat more than for stability and reliability is just finding nonsense weakpoint of platform YOU dont LIKE because you just want to be different and saying that popular "MAINSTREAM BS".
So calm down fanboys, AMD will never get market share their owners dreams they deserves.
PhoneZ - Friday, July 15, 2005 - link
I would almost never run a system without the chipset drivers. a VIA system could go down at any random point without the 4in1s, you need the Intel INF Updae to install the SMBus, and Windows doesnt have drivers for any of the nForce chipset hardware. Bbut I will admit that i won't install the SIS IDE cause that can cause system to becoe unstable. nForce can be very stable but has alot of bugs that can destroy yer OS if you dont disable certain features(ie firewall).nserra - Friday, July 15, 2005 - link
All platforms are good, but i admit the drivers suck. Keep the default OS ones and all runs good.I have the default XP drivers on my SIS board and all runs stable and fast.
This new Uli is looking good, specialy for my 9700 card.
My ex nforce2 took 1 year and half to get stable, and to get the sound card working right.
Cygni - Friday, July 15, 2005 - link
Wtf, Nforce is unstable? Wow. Could have fooled me... havent rebooted for a few weeks.Honestly, the Intel vs AMD fanboy attacks are hillarious, because both know approximatly nothing.
Both platforms are rock solid, period. Stability isnt even a legitimate argument anymore.
Xenoterranos - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link
Hey, now I can update to skt 939!mino - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link
#34;#44;#45 You're an idiot. No appologies.If Intel system uses 180W idle and AMD system 100W idle, it is NOT 20W difference.
And about your "energy efficient bulb" You forgot to mention that these bulbs emit UV radiation unlike traditional edison-style bulbs. So the light You get from them is NOT the light you get from traditional ones. In PC world, however the performance of A64 and P4 is interchangeable.
I don't believe You will get it.
But someone had to try...
mino - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link
#27 Don't insult Uli, we have yet to see good driver support from NVIDIA. VIA,SIS,Intel is the league Uli is playing in as far as driver support is concerned. ATI/nVidia have ONLY performance and ATI has good integrated graphics givers.val - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link
#37 my prescott is not throttling, i can install cooler correct." Anand said he had no problems at all with his reference board" they are testing it few hours at most, this is not prooven platform. nForce is still being good rated in newspapers, and look how crappy it is. Not talking about VIA.
"You must save tons of money on your electric bill in the winter." No, 20W makes no difference either for electric bill or warm in room. Go back to school. 70W i save by changing my bulb from 100W to energy efficient 20W one.
val - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link
#38 maybe you should next time give somebody 50$ to build and install computer for you if you are so LAME that you cannot build stable pc. And you believe me, that i didnt expected any other claim from AMD fanboy, and i know that you would say this even when it is not truth.stmok - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link
Forgot to add...The ASRock mobo is estimated to come at end of July! (Assuming no delays).