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 Sapphire Pure Crossfire AM2RD580
SLI under CrossFire
(Review by MS, October 8, 2007)
PC-AM2RD580 At One Glance

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Chipset
  • CrossFire Express 3200
  • ATI RD580 + SB600

Processor Interface

  • Socket AM2
  • AMD Athlon 64 AM2 and Sempron AM2 CPUs

Voltage Regulator Module

  • 0.8V -1.55 V in 25 mV steps

System Memory Support

  • Four 240 pin DDR2 slots with support of up to 4 GB per module
  • Dual Channel (128-bit wide) Operation supported
  • DDR2 400, 533, 667,800 supported

System BIOS

  • Phoenix Award Workstation BIOS
  • PnP, APM, ACPI, DMI support
  • Support for 48-bit LBA Hard Disc addressing
  • DOS or Windows-based flash utility

Plug and Play

  • PnP 1.1 compliant

Onboard I/O

  • 1 x Parallel ATA port for support of two devices up to UltraATA 133
  • 1 x Floppy connector
  • 10 USB Ports (6 via headers on mainboard)
  • PS/2 keyboard and mouse support

Gigabit Ethernet
  • Marvell 88E8052 PCI Express Gigabit LAN
  • WOL and Remote Wake-Up function

Expansion Ports

  • 2 x 16 lane PCIe ports
  • Support for CrossFire
  • 1 x 1 lane PCIe port
  • 1 x PCI V.2.2 slot

IEEE1394 Firewire

  • VIA VT6307 Integrated 400 Mbit Phy
  • 1 x port in I/O connector block
  • 1 x header on mainboard

On-Board Audio

  • Realtek ALC882D audio CODEC
  • Direct Sound and SoundBlaster compatible
  • Full Duplex 24-bit two-channel DACs and three Stereo 20-bit ADCs
  • eight-channel analog I/O
  • S/PDIF I/O ports

Serial ATAII HBA

  • 2 x SiI 3132 two port SATA controllers
  • 4 x SATAII ports supported by SB600
  • Support for RAID 0, 1, 10

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