My Patience is wearing thin for RD600!

dark4orz · 2 Oct 2006 at 16:47

1) Can anyone shed some light when these boards will be released for conroe 6600?

2) What is the best motherboard to go for in the £150 range ?

There's lots of talk regarding the Asus P5H DW Deluxe on how it overclocks are these boards being shipped with the updated bios's so they are conroe ready, because I do not have another P4 which I could use to update the bios ?

Stelly · 2 Oct 2006 at 16:48

dark4orz said:
1) Can anyone shed some light when these boards will be released for conroe 6600?

2) What is the best motherboard to go for in the £150 range ?

There's lots of talk regarding the Asus P5H DW Deluxe on how it overclocks are these boards being shipped with the updated bios's so they are conroe ready, because I do not have another P4 which I could use to update the bios ?

Asus P5H DW Deluxe are shipped Conroe ready now...

Stelly

dark4orz · 2 Oct 2006 at 16:59

Stelly said:
Asus P5H DW Deluxe are shipped Conroe ready now...

Stelly

Thanks stelly, does the motherboard have Solid State Caps like the gigabytes do?

maddness · 2 Oct 2006 at 17:16

dark4orz said:
Thanks stelly, does the motherboard have Solid State Caps like the gigabytes do?

no it doesnt have all solid caps, but that shouldnt put you off!

BUFF · 2 Oct 2006 at 23:25

If you can live with the layout the Abit AW9D-MAX is probably pipping the P5 WH in overclocking & it doesn't have the Asus reboot behaviour but there's nothing between the 2 really.

Noto · 3 Oct 2006 at 10:44

ditto i have been waiting for the RD600 for what seems like forever. ¬_¬ someone release them pweaseeeeeee

Jay_t · 3 Oct 2006 at 11:25

BUFF said:
If you can live with the layout the Abit AW9D-MAX is probably pipping the P5 WH in overclocking & it doesn't have the Asus reboot behaviour but there's nothing between the 2 really.

I'd have the Abit in a flash if it had PCI slots (1 or 0 with crossfire is a joke) The Asus is going in members market the second rd600 arrives as it won't clock over 300FSB without doing its (hard drive ruining) pulling the power trick. Having a Jmicron controller is also a great reason not to get a board.

Technofr3ak · 3 Oct 2006 at 12:55

Jay_t said:
I'd have the Abit in a flash if it had PCI slots (1 or 0 with crossfire is a joke) The Asus is going in members market the second rd600 arrives as it won't clock over 300FSB without doing its (hard drive ruining) pulling the power trick. Having a Jmicron controller is also a great reason not to get a board.

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4096

steve258 · 3 Oct 2006 at 13:11

Noto said:
ditto i have been waiting for the RD600 for what seems like forever. ¬_¬ someone release them pweaseeeeeee

Seems unlikely now after the AMD - ATi merger. That's why ATi licensed crossfire for 965 chipset I think.

dark4orz · 3 Oct 2006 at 16:58

steve258 said:
Seems unlikely now after the AMD - ATi merger. That's why ATi licensed crossfire for 965 chipset I think.

Only dfi will be producing a rd600 setup.

whenRD600? · 3 Oct 2006 at 22:45

fingers crossed its early not late this month, October is the date spouted all over the internet.

Need this board to finish my build, refuse to give in and buy a 975x

Scoobie Dave · 4 Oct 2006 at 14:57

I'd still like a decent sli conroe board instead of this cross fire rubbish. Although if nvidia keep bolting together gfx cards it dont matter anymore. Im very happy with my GX2.

Richdog · 5 Oct 2006 at 20:09

Is this a definate October? Anyone got any more news on it?

Seriously thinking about holding out for this now.

Technofr3ak · 5 Oct 2006 at 21:02

Scoobie Dave said:
I'd still like a decent sli conroe board instead of this cross fire rubbish. Although if nvidia keep bolting together gfx cards it dont matter anymore. Im very happy with my GX2.

When you say crossfire is rubbish do you have any proof of this? Any links or reviews to backup your post?

silversurfer · 6 Oct 2006 at 04:05

Its november now

Technofr3ak · 6 Oct 2006 at 05:13

silversurfer said:
Its november now

after that it will be christmas :eek:

wizardmaxx · 6 Oct 2006 at 05:55

Looks like an awsome board. Can't wait to see performance.

dark4orz · 6 Oct 2006 at 08:11

I thinking to get Abit, Asus or MSI to tie me over for a while, as my patience is wearing thin.

Gibbo · 6 Oct 2006 at 11:03

Hi there

How come your all eager for the RD600?

What advantage does it offer of 965/975 chipsets?

wizardmaxx · 6 Oct 2006 at 11:07

Main One

The memory controller operates asynchronously from the front-side bus, allowing the FSB to be overclocked independently of the memory without being limited by memory dividers.

Nice to futureproof

RD600 motherboards will also support up to three PCI Express x16 slots, two of which can be used for Crossfire whilst the third GPUI can be used as a physics processor.