Ciao ragazzi, con questo thread vorrei raccogliere quanti più opinioni e riferimenti possibili, sull'ultima scheda madre della serie Pure Innovation di casa Sapphire: il modello PI-AM2RS690MHD basata sul recentissimo chipset AMD 690G.
Visto il crescente interesse per le piattaforme con grafica integrata e la mia necessità di passare ad una di esse, ho recuperato per giorni e giorni informazioni, facendo ricadere prima la scelta sul nuovo chipset AMD 690G e poi su questa motherboard (che sarà il mio prossimo acquisto).
Come tutte le mobo della serie Pure Innovation, il look si presenta molto "cool" e con un bel pcb bianco.
Costo stimato dai ~90 ai ~115 euro a seconda dello shop.
Di seguito foto, dettagli e link.
Sapphire PI-AM2RS690MHD w/HDMI - AMD 690G
Specs:
Innovation Thru Imagination with HDMI
Now with HDMI, the new Pure Innovation HDMI mainboard boasts:support for the impressive AMD Athlon 64/FX/ X2 processors, memory exapnsion of up to 8GB of 533/667/800 Dual Channel, PCI-Express Technology, onboard X1250 graphics and HDMI to fill your multimedia needs, onboard LAN/Firewire/USB 2.0 affords the luxury of connectivity without limitations, and for peak hard drive performance and backwards compatibility both IDE and RAID 0/1 SATA II suuport.
Chipset
AMD® RS690G+SB600 Chipset.
Processor
Support for AMDTM K8 Processor in a Socket AM2 package.
Support Hypertransport interface bus.
VRM (Voltage Regulator Modules) onboard
Flexible motherboard design with onboard VRM, easy to upgradewith future AMDTM K8 processors.
0.800V to 1.55V in 25mV steps.
System Memory
A total of four 240 pin DDRII SDRAM sockets (optional).
DIMM sizes from 64 Mbytes to 4Gbyte.
Supports Dual Channel 128-bit Wide Memory Interface.
Supports 533/667/800 DDRII SDRAM memory types.[list]System BIOS[list]
PnP, APM, ATAPI and Windows® 2000/XP.
Full support of ACPI & DMI.
Auto detects and supports LBA harddisk with capacities over 160GB.
Easy to upgrade BIOS by end-user.
Plug and Play
Supports Plug and Play specification 1.1.
Plug and play for Windows® 2000, as well as Windows® XP.
Fully steerable PCI interrupts.
Onboard VGA
Integrated ATI PCIE X1250 graphic core.
Supports CRT or TV Out display.
Integrated DAC and CRT controllers.
Full screen/full speed video playback.
Up to 2048x1536, non-interlaced screen resolution for CRT.
Support DVI-D port (via header) (optional)[list]TV Out (optional)[list]
Integrated TV encoder.
10-bit DAC with 4-tap filter.
PAL/NTSC TV Out with Composite and S-Video outputs (via a header).
ATI's exclusive "Composite Dot Crawl" freeze option for PALand NTSC to improve the picture quality.
TV-Out power management support.
Expanded USB Support
Includes 2 OHCI host controllers.
Includes 1 EHCI USB2.0 Host Controller that supports all ports(Bandwidth is shared between the all ports).
This motherboard supports USB 2.0 only on Windows® 2000(with SP4 or above) and Windows® XP (with SP1 or above) operation
systems.
PCI Express Graphics Interface
One 16-lane PCI Express graphics port, fully compliantwith the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
A base PCI Express frequency of 2.5Gb/s only.
PCI Express support and Enhanced Addressing Mechanism.[list]PCI Express X1 Ports[list]
Full PCI Express 1.0a compliant.
One virtual channel support for full isochronous data transfers.
Support for full 2.5Gb/s bandwidth in each direction per X1 lane.
Onboard I/O
One onboard PCI fast IDE ports supporting up to 2 ATA, ATA2 , UltraATA33/66/100/133 IDE HDDs, CD-ROMs, ZIP drives and LS-120
drives as boot drive.
One ECP/EPP parallel port.
One 16550 Compatible UART serial port (via a header).
One floppy port which supports two FDD of 1.44MB, 2.88MB capacity.
Ten USB ports (six ports via three headers).
PS/2 keyboard support.
PS/2 mouse support.
One front panel sound connector.
Infrared (IrDA) support via a header.
Onboard Realtek RTL8100C/RTL8110S PCI LAN (optional)
Provides 32-bit performance, PCI bus master capability.
Full compliance with IEEE 802.3u 100 Base-T specifications andIEEE 802.3X Full Duplex Flow Control.
Supports 10 Mb/s, 100 Mb/s and 1000 Mb/s (only for RTL8110S)operation.
Supports Wake-On-LAN function and remote wake-up.
Supports ACPI, PCI Power management and PCI VPD.
Onboard HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface)
Integrated 30-bit TMDS HDMI interface.
Support EIA-861B uncompressed digital video modes.
HDMI accepts 50Hz video formats, and that supports HDTV capability.
Supports [email protected]/60Hz.
Power Management
Supports SMM, APM and ACPI.
Break switch for instant suspend/resume on system operations.
Energy star "Green PC" compliant.
Hardware monitoring circuit provides voltage, fan speed, etc. monitoring(optional).
External Modem Ring-in Wake-up support.
Supports suspend-to-RAM (STR) (optional).(Note: Make sure that the current of your 5VSB power supply is more than
1.5A. Please use a 300 watt power supply or greater.)
Onboard IEEE1394 (optional)
Compliant with 1394 OHCI specifications v1.0 and v1.1.
Integrated 400Mbit 2 port PHY.
Onboard HDA Sound
Integrated HDA controller with HDA codec.
Support 16/20/24 bit PCM format for 7.1 sound play back.
Support SPDIF-IN/OUT .
Windows® 2000/xp ready.
Onboard Serial ATAII Host Controller (optional)
Independent DMA operation on four ports.
Data transfer rates of 300Mb/s.
RAID feature support .
Expansion slots
1 PCI Express X16 slot.
1 PCI Express X1 slot.
2 PCI slots, - ver. 2.2 compliant (optional)
Recensioni Sapphire PI-AM2RS690MHD:
- TechPowerUp!
- Hardwarezone
- Techworks.pl (in polacco)
Links:
Product Overview @Sapphire
Manuale PDF
Performance, recensioni e altro sul chipset AMD 690G:
AnandTech: AMD 690G: Performance Review
The Tech Report - AMD's 690G
Legit Reviews - How To: Overclocking AMD Boards With 690G
IT-review.net - AMD's 690G vs Intel's 965G head-to-head
HwUpgrade: AMD 690G - un chipset integrato per Athlon 64
CeBIT Head to head: MSI 690G vs. Sapphire Pure 690G
Guide & Co.:
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