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Anh Tuan Huynh (Blog) - October 4, 2006 5:24 PM

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ATI leaves Intel chipset market to NVIDIA and Intel

As the AMD and ATI merger nears completion, the future of ATI’s Intel chipset lineup was becoming uncertain. Before word of the AMD and ATI merger appeared ATI was working on three chipsets for the Intel platform. These chipsets included the RD600 CrossFire Xpress 3200, RS600 Radeon Xpress 1250 and RS700.

ATI’s RS600 Radeon Xpress 1250 received a pseudo launch and was announced for Intel notebooks. However, notebook manufacturers have been slow to adopt the chipset since it was announced after the AMD and ATI merger announcements. RD600 CrossFire Express 3200 has been in development for quite some time. It was first expected to arrive towards the end of August but kept getting delayed.

Now it’s October and RD600 CrossFire Xpress 3200 motherboards still aren’t here. It would seem motherboard manufacturers are choosing Intel’s 975X Express chipset over ATI’s CrossFire Xpress 3200. Nevertheless, motherboard manufacturers are claiming ATI’s RD600 CrossFire Xpress 3200 will be the last ATI chipset for Intel processors. This doesn’t come as too much of a surprise as AMD and ATI are in the process of merging.

With RD600 CrossFire Xpress 3200 being the last ATI chipset for Intel platforms, it would seem RS700 has been canned in favor for AMD variants. Nevertheless, ATI is developing a strong AMD product lineup which includes the upcoming RS690 with a Radeon X700 derived graphics core with AVIVO features. Although ATI has cancelled the RS700, it wouldn’t be too surprising to see it reappear as an AMD variant.

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By dmce on 10/5/2006 8:59:14 AM , Rating: 2

Its nice to hear a little more on RS600 and RS690. I have been waiting on board info on the RS690 as i was thinking of using it in my HTPC build when a nice mATX board appeared.

Anyone have any info on any boards that will use RS690?

Never buying an ATI motherboard again

By Josh7289 on 10/8/06, Rating: -1

By Josh7289 on 10/8/2006 2:17:21 PM , Rating: -1

After months of trouble with an RS480/SB400 Radeon Xpress 200 MSI mATX mobo, I'm never going back to ATI motherboards again. Basically, the motherboard does not support Nvidia video cards, and I only learned this after months of trying to figure out what was wrong, RMA'ing my eVGA 6600 GT many times trying to get a "good" one, then finally reading a passing comment on a random forum post about the issue. Never was this discussed anywhere on ATI's website or MSI's. I had to call up MSI and argue with the guy for a while until he agreed to RMA the board. Now I'm in the process of that, and I am supposed to get a mobo with an RS482 North Bridge that is compatible with Nvidia video cards.

The only good thing that came out of this situation is that I now know how great a company eVGA really is, after putting up with all my RMAs and problems. They are DEFINITELY going to keep getting my business, and when I move to a Core 2 Duo platform next year, I'm going with an Intel chipset on an Intel motherboard. I'm done with unstable motherboards.

RE: Never buying an ATI motherboard again

By Trisped on 10/10/2006 12:38:49 PM , Rating: 2

Strange problem, though I saw it first from NVidia. My friend bought an AMD board with NVidia chipset a while a go and ended up (after months of technical support calls) having to buy a new board because the NVidia chipset would not work with his ATI X800 card.

ATI boards are vary rare compared to NVidia, as almost all AMD boards use the NVidia chipsets. As a result, only true ATI fans buy the ATI boards, and they usually have ATI chipsets, so no problem. The reveres is not true, as if you want AMD, you are probably going to get an NVidia board. If they make it so ATI doesn't work on it, it knocks ATI out of the market. That is actually how NVidia was able get out of its second rate quality perception. Everyone thought NVidia was low quality, then ATI video cards stopped working in most mother boards.

Of course you could be one of the 2-3 plants I have seen trying to talk up their products. You seem more like a mid level enthusiast who had a problem with one product and are now going to shun the whole brand. It is very common; you see posts like that on all the technical support forums.

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RE: Never buying an ATI motherboard again

By Heron Kusanagi on 10/11/2006 7:00:25 AM , Rating: 2

I wouldn't mind having just an ATI motherboard if only Singapore has AM2 Crossfire boards. From what I see, even in newegg there's only a MSI K9A Platnium.

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