hahhaa, thank you biglu,
but sorry gaming frek i just couldn't think of a visual expression equivalent to the "music to my ears" expression..haha .....
Well, the ATI CrossFire 3200 chipset is really nice, does outstanding in the benchmarks. Although I felt the benchmarks to be rather irrelavent half the time. Reason for this is; Why is an Audio encoding program used to test GRAPHICS cards? Come on THG, let's actually TEST the cards...
Sapphire released two socket 939 motherboards based on the new CrossFire Xpress 3200 from ATI: PC-A9RD580 and PC-A9RD580ADV. Both have two x16 PCI Express slots compatible with ATI's CrossFire technology, four DDR400 sockets (4 GB max.), two ATA-133 ports, four Serial ATA ports, 8-channel audio, eight USB 2.0 ports and Gigabit Ethernet.
PC-A9RD580 has one x1 PCI Express slot, one PCI slot, two SATA-300 ports and two Firewire (IEEE1394) ports, while PC-A9RD580ADV has two x1 PCI Express slots, two PCI slots, four SATA-300 ports and two LAN ports (one Gigabit and one 10/100).
PC-A9RD580 is targeted to overclockers (it brings several overclocking options) and its PCB is white, while PC-A9RD580ADV is targeted to mainstream users, using a standard brown PCB.