ATI RD580, Crossfire Xpress 3200 to launch February
Anyone that has looked into buying a CrossFire ready motherboard using an ATI chipset knows the choices are far and few. The next generation ATI chipset (RD580) is still on the table for this month, so keep your fingers crossed.
ATI’s Crossfire chipset has 32 PCIe lanes dedicated for two graphic cards plus a few additional lanes for additional PCIe slots and ports. ATI has a socket M2 version of it as well, but that can wait now. We know that at least some of these will use ULI chipset again. Still, ATI needs to sell more south bridges but it really needs SB600 as that is the promising one. We don?t think you will see this south bridge until Computex in June, but we know it should be significantly better than the oft criticised SB450. Some people don?t like its USB and IDE performance, but hopefully the new SB 600 will fix it and make it better.
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