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SLI under CrossFire
Chipset Overview
At One Glance
What You Get
VRM and Layout
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 Sapphire Pure Crossfire AM2RD580
SLI under CrossFire
(Review by MS, October 8, 2007)
Chipset Overview

(Picture courtesy of ATI)

Specifications

General

  • The world's first single chip 2x16 PCI-E chipset
  • Enhanced support for over-clocking, and PCI Express performance
  • Fastest multi-GPU interconnect
  • Coupled with SB600 for performance

CPU Interface

  • Support for all AMD CPU’s: Athlon™ 64, Athlon™ 64 FX, Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core, and Sempron™ processors
  • Support for 64-bit extended operating systems
  • Highly overclockable and robust HyperTransport™ interface

Power Management Features

  • Fully supports ACPI states S1, S3, S4, and S5
  • Support for AMD Cool‘n’Quiet™ technology for crisp and quiet operation

Optimized Software Support

  • Unified driver support on all ATI Radeon PCI Express discrete graphics products
  • Support for Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows® 2000, and Linux

Universal Connectivity

  • A-Link Xpress II i/f to ATI northbridges; providing high bandwidth for high speed peripherals
  • 10 USB 2.0 ports
  • SATA Gen 2 PHY support at 3.0Ghz with E-SATA capability
  • 4 ports SATA AHCI controller supports NCQ and slumber modes
  • ATA 133 controller support up to UDMA mode 6 with 2 drives (disk or optical)
  • TPM 1.1 and 1.2 compliant
  • ASF 2.0 support for manageability control
  • HPET (high precision event timer), ACPI 3.0, and AHCI support for Windows Vista
  • Power management engine supporting both AMD and Intel platforms and forward compliant to MS Windows Vista
  • UAA (universal audio architecture) support for High-Definition Audio and MODEM
  • PCI v2.3 (up to 6 slots)
  • LPC (Low Pin Count), SPI (new flash bus), and SM (System Management) bus management and arbitrations
  • “Legacy” PC compatible functions, RTC (Real Time Clock), interrupt controller and DMA controllers

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