ECS Website Shows AMD Socket AM2 ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 Motherboard Listed
Motherboard maker ECS – aka Elitegroup – has posted details of its first Socket AM2 mobo, a product based on ATI’s as-yet-unannounced Radeon Xpress 1100 chipset up on their website for all to see. At first we didn’t believe the rumor, but sure enough it can be found here. On the ECS site they claim to support AMD Socket AM2 Athlon 64 FX/Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core/Athlon 64/Sempron processors with 64-bit architecture. It also states that the board runs Dual Channel DDR2 800, which doubles the bandwidth of your system memory up to 12.8GB/s and pumps up the system performance. If you want the full specifications look here. Bring on the ATI RS485 & ATI SB460 chipsets!
The ATI product comprises the company’s RS485 North Bridge and SB460 South Bridge, according to ECS’ website. The RS485 has a Radeon X300-level integrated GPU and can use up to 256MB of main memory for its frame buffer. The board itself – dubbed the RS485M-M – supports AMD’s upcoming Socket AM2 single- and dual-core Athlon 64 and 64 FX processors and dual-channel configured 800MHz DDR 2 SDRAM – implying the new desktop chips will go one step beyond 667MHz memory. The mobo can be loaded with up to 16GB of RAM.
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