News DFI confirms ATI RD600 chipset for Intel

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/07/25/dfi_confirms_upcoming_rd600_chipset_for_intel/

w00t!

 

Nice, this was around the time I was thinking of moving to Core 2 Duo.

 

Good stuff. Lets hope ATI dealing with Intel and Nvidia dealing with AMD keeps up.

 

Good to hear that they are going to at least do one chipset for intel... Intel pulling Ati's licensing seemed rather childish... though I can see the business aspect of that decision... but it just sounds like kids on a playground

Intel: You want to play ball with that kid?

Ati: Yeah... he's cool. What about it?

Intel: Well if you wanna play with him, I'll just take my ball and go home.

 

with the core 2 being so cool it can be overclocked to hell
and WarMachine its more like.

ATI has a disco were Intel and AMD used to dance each on its section, Intel and AMD are rivals, AMD bought the disco, Intel will not enter a disco that is owned by its rival because the section reserved to Intel is small and expensive and ineficient and all profits would go to AMD, its rival.

 

thank god. If DFI will launch one then i will be able to go with c2d or kentwood and still enjoy crossfire and good ocing on phase. Intel is being a brat. and while i can see why they wouldnt want to help AMD they did license 64 bit tech from them in the past, and enjoy a huge market lead so why not just play nice and deliver what your highed niche market , the early adopters of new chips, want.

It was this kind of behavior that drove me away from intel in the first place.

 

yeah DXR, that sounds a bit more like it...

Really, I think the cross-compatability of all these companies has been an extremely good thing for the marketplace... all I can see coming in the future is a more proprietary system architecture... if you run an Intel proc, you run Nforce chipsets and GPU's... AMD procs you'll have to run Ati stuff...

Personally I like the way things ahve been for the last few years... where I can choose my components from the companies I prefer and be 95% sure they'll play nice with one another (keeping in mind the new SLI vs. Crossfire graphics conundrum... I'd say that qualifies for a good 5% uncertainty).

Honestly... this has the potential to remove a great deal of the flexibility PC builders and enthusiasts have enjoyed over their Apple counterparts... the proprietary nature of the Mac is the only reason I won't own another one. Fantastic machines, but if I can't fix or upgrade it on my own terms, why bother?

Good example: last weekend I went shopping for a new video card... I had the option of staying with Ati or getting an Nvidia card... I kept with Ati but the option is what made the choice so much better... I wasn't limited to what was compatable with my machine, only by how much I wanted to spend. I like to do my homework before I buy anything, but how much more difficult will a shift in the proprietary direction make life for the average PC end user that might pick up a vid card off the shelf at Walmart?

 

ATI RD 600 v. Intel i975 Crossfire question

Can anyone answer this (accurately, preferebly)? I intend to build a new conroe system with crossfire. I have two ATI 850xl cards (one is a crossfire edition, the other is a pe which I am using now with my current rig). Should I wait for the ati rd600 board with two PCIe 16 lanes or just go with the i975 which only offers PCIe 8x when using crossfire? How big a difference will it make in terms of graphic performance? A physics card is not on the horizon unless the prices come way down. Thanks!