You can set settings in windows and you can reboot and keep settings. If you press the reset button the settings will default back to bios settings. It is so nice not having to reset the bios.
One of the world's top overclockers, Macci, has joined ATI and is now working as a consultant at the firm's headquarters in Canada, the graphics firm has told bit-tech today.
Macci is well known in the overclocking community for his outrageous OCing exploits, usually involving liquid nitrogen and some awesome soldering skills. His previous interaction with ATI has included an overclocking competition at the Texas Gaming Festival, where he went to work on the (then unannounced) 512MB Radeon cards.
Macci has joined the motherboard department at ATI, and is working to make its next generation of motherboard chipsets, codenamed RD580, insanely overclockable.
We wonder if ATI will be attempting to leverage some marketing spin from 'Macci Edition' motherboards, just as various companies employ the 'Fatal1ty' brand now?
Meanwhile, Macci's new compadre in the firm, Reuven Soraya, has been answering questions about the firm's motherboard strategy for 2006, starting with RD580, which he confirmed will be out early in the year.
ATI IS WORKING hard on its RD600 core logic and we hear that this chipset has something cool to offer.
Traditionally Intel's chipsets have always been the fastest and the best for overclocking Intel CPUs but this is about to change with RD 600.
The chipset and the boards should be ready in a little more than a month, so let's say late August, and ATI is confident that these boards will demonstrate better overclocking performance than i975 ones.
We still haven't sniffed out the commercial name for the chipset but at least we know it will end up being fast. Naturally, this board will support Crossfire boards as do i975 and P965 chipsets.
This might be a positive boost for ATI's chipset division that just lost Intel as a big, third-party partner. ATI will be after some revenge with the introduction of the fastest and the most overclockable platform for Conroe.
pr0p disse:Infelizmente n to com esperanças de ser uma sub200€ board.
Stylus disse:O minha questão é outra..... o k é k a nVidia vai sacar da manga para contrabalançar as coisas, embora esta tb n tenha sido mto feliz 'on Intel side'?
schmusli disse:todos estamos com esperança que com este chipset da ATI conseguimos sacar uns 500mhz de FSB para cima sem recorrer a cooling extreme e mods. As DFI's LP estão no mercado dos entusiastas, como agora o mercado dos entusiastas vai virar para Intel as DFI's tb vão virar para Intel. Como sabemos as DFI's LP sao as unicas que dão grande espaço de manobra a nivel de voltagem sem recorrer aos vmods. Juntado a DFI com o chipset da ATI vamos ter um novo "KING OF THE HILL".
Koncaman disse:para que é que queres muitos volts num intel? so se for para queimar o CPU... pelo menos estes de 65nm ja se viu que não vão muito à bola com grandes voltagens.
a unica coisa que eles precisam é de estabilidade.
mesmo no que a voltagem de memorias diz respeito. uma vez que o ideal será, na impossibilidade de usar 1:1, ter as memorias a 533 para o fsb a 1066... ora se ja se encontra DDRII 800 (para fsb's de 1600mhz), e mesmo DDR2 a 1000mhz (apesar de cara pa caraças). muitos kits DDR2 800 fazem 1000mhz, sem grande esforço... não vejo para que é que as voltagens podem dar grande jeito nesta plataforma.
Zarolho disse:As voltagens são necessárias nomeadamente no chipset NB e não com tanta relevancia no CPU ou na RAM, isto no caso particular da Intel que não possui controlador de memória no CPU, mas sim no NB.
A minha Asus P5W DH somente possibilita 1.65v MCH, no entanto para chegar aos 500mhz no FSB, necessito de valores a rondar os 2.0v, algo que o chipset ATI ou Nvidia poderão alcançar.
Veremos quem será o fabricante de MB que possibilitará elevados FSB sem recorrer a voltagens muito elevadas, é que com sistemas Intel as MB assumem um papel muito determinante ao nivel da performance e estabilidade.