RD600 only from DFI

[D_o_S]

The word in Taiwan is that the highly anticipated ATI RD600 Conroe chipset is only going to be provided by one motherboard manufacturer, DFI. According to sources, Intel has been putting pressure on Taiwan motherboard companies not to produce RD600 based motherboards. DFI stood up to the Intel giant and mentioned to us that they’ll be the only company providing an RD600 board, the DFI Lanparty RD600. This seems like a real disappointment for ATI as RD600 was set to be a bigger seller for the Canadian company with FSB speeds set to reach 480MHz and above – much higher than 975X and the C19 nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition chipset. DFI’s Lanparty RD600 motherboard will be on shop shelves sometimes next month but we’re not sure on an exact date yet.

Source: Daily Tech (http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4053)

[xylomn]

yay, i might still be able to get it

I was planning to buy the ASUS P5W DH Deluxe (to go with a 6600) but I think I'll wait see how this turns out

[Frogger]

:cool: Was planning to build the next rig with ASUS or DFI any way ;) now I guess that has been decided for me:ohwell: have to wait and see the board specs now...;)

[Seany1212]

yea but wont this suggest that DFI can make it more expensive as it is unique?

[ace80]

Maybe a bit of a noob question but will it be sli or crossfire?:)

[Seany1212]

crossfire as ATI created the chip (correct?)

[tofu]

LOL, of course its crossfire.

Intel is getting really serious about competition, pressuring mobo manufacturers not to use ATI...

I don't expect the DFI RD600 to sell for a reasonable price like it says: "they’ll be the only company providing an RD600 board, the DFI Lanparty RD600"

monopoly, ms style

[KennyT772]

well it will be the single fastest mobo on the market. it is and always has been aimed at the extreamist overclocker.

[Sasqui]

LOL, of course its crossfire.

Intel is getting really serious about competition, pressuring mobo manufacturers not to use ATI...

I don't expect the DFI RD600 to sell for a reasonable price like it says: "they’ll be the only company providing an RD600 board, the DFI Lanparty RD600"

monopoly, ms style

And reading "DFI Cancels The Highly Anticipated LANParty UT nF590 SLI Intel Edition" is an interesting twist.

[jocksteeluk]

well it looks like DFI could soon find themselves on the Naughty list of intel, it wouldnt surprise me if they found themselfs on the end of an intel embargo sometime in the future

[Dippyskoodlez]

LOL, of course its crossfire.

Intel is getting really serious about competition, pressuring mobo manufacturers not to use ATI...

I don't expect the DFI RD600 to sell for a reasonable price like it says: "they’ll be the only company providing an RD600 board, the DFI Lanparty RD600"

monopoly, ms style


Intel is dumb pressuring anti rd600. This is the chipset that will most likely save conroe's ass against K8L... :eek:

You're right about the price thing..

However, they may give them a good price because 1.) ati uses a very small chipset die compared to Nvidia and 2.) Its the only maker of it... and if it sells well...

well.. the dollar doesn't lie... and Asus/MSI/etc will most definatly want to make some $$! :pimp:

[jocksteeluk]

Intel is dumb pressuring anti rd600. This is the chipset that will most likely save conroe's ass against K8L... :eek:



you are missing the point, why are intel going to want a RIVAL to make the fastest chipset for its processors? forget the fact that the consumers will benifit from the performance for intel and its partners it makes perfect buisiness sence to block them. Nodoubt intel has some sought of retribution for DFI's defiance

[cdawall]

you are missing the point, why are intel going to want a RIVAL to make the fastest chipset for its processors? forget the fact that the consumers will benifit from the performance for intel and its partners it makes perfect buisiness sence to block them. Nodoubt intel has some sought of retribution for DFI's defiance

yeah intel is going to walk into the CEOs house and beat him w/ a stick :roll: intel is funny


long live AMD K8L the conroe beater

[Azn Tr14dZ]

Long live AMD K8L, which isn't even "born" yet. I hope it'll be better than Core 2 Duo, since IMO it's easier to upgrade w/ and AMD system. But I'll still have to get a new board and memory and CPU no matter what.

[Seany1212]

any idea for when K8L will arrise? hoping to get K8L, new mobo, dx10 card and new ram, have £360 so far :D

[v7100]

My upgrade P3>Athlon64 Winchester>Athlon64 Venice>Athlon X2 Manchester>>>K8L.

No Conroe for me.

any idea for when K8L will arrise? hoping to get K8L, new mobo, dx10 card and new ram, have £360 so far :D

[Dippyskoodlez]

you are missing the point, why are intel going to want a RIVAL to make the fastest chipset for its processors? forget the fact that the consumers will benifit from the performance for intel and its partners it makes perfect buisiness sence to block them. Nodoubt intel has some sought of retribution for DFI's defiance

Not much intel can do, really...

Its in intels performance interests for the enthusiast community...

For intels target enthusiast market they NEEEEEED this chipset.

Other than that, it doesn't matter to intel. They don't want it at all.

However, the enthusiast is a decent segment of the market that is very fragile when it comes to this kind of situation ;)

Personally I think its shooting them in the foot, having see how overclockable this chipset already is... smoking intel's chipsets. Plus Crossfire support.

[W2hCYK]

I love how everyone is obsessing over K8L, even though there arent any ES's out... Same with conroes.. There were ES's out, but they performed sooo differently from the actual retail batch.

I think you should just wait, and then decide when actual retail benches and real world performance is shown.

[tofu]

I love how everyone is obsessing over K8L, even though there arent any ES's out... Same with conroes.. There were ES's out, but they performed sooo differently from the actual retail batch.

I think you should just wait, and then decide when actual retail benches and real world performance is shown.

and how did the ES conroes perform sooo differently from the actual retail batch?

EDIT: thats a damn nice rig to be in ur siggy, up on sat

[W2hCYK]

the ES E6600's OC'd to 4GHz on air cooling, and the ones that are retail (B2 Stepping) max out at about 3.35GHz on air...

[Dippyskoodlez]

the ES E6600's OC'd to 4GHz on air cooling, and the ones that are retail (B2 Stepping) max out at about 3.35GHz on air...

They did it to overhype them for that very reason. what, you actually expect a cpu to really be that good? :confused:

You don't need benchies when you consider what amd has changed in the K8L.

It has an extra floating point unit, double the L1 cache... :eek:

and too numerous others ;)

There's no doubt AMD has competition in the pipeline. :toast:

[KennyT772]

They did it to overhype them for that very reason. what, you actually expect a cpu to really be that good? :confused:

You don't need benchies when you consider what amd has changed in the K8L.

It has an extra floating point unit, double the L1 cache... :eek:

and too numerous others ;)

There's no doubt AMD has competition in the pipeline. :toast:

ooh shiney....

[Dippyskoodlez]

ooh shiney....

:confused:

[cdawall]

:confused:

i think he likes the idea of new amd :roll:

[overclock[r]]

well i woulkd think the dfi will be around 250$
anyways, i wanted p5w, now i want rd600, i want to do cf x1900xtx some day