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CrossFire™ Xpress 3200 - Reviews
CrossFire Xpress 3200 has been getting amazing reviews from all over the world:
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ExtremeTech
For now, 40 PCI-Express lanes, a cooler RD580 northbridge,
and enhanced CrossFire support for lower-end GPUs put this
board near the top of our list.” |
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Anandtech
“ATI has a solution that competes in every way
with the best nVidia has to offer in AMD chipsets. The (CrossFire
Xpress 3200) RD580 was designed from the ground up for dual
x16 and it is the first chipset to provide dual x16 PCIe on
a single chip. This solution is much simpler than the nVidia
solution which uses one chip designed for AMD for an x16 PCIe
slot and another designed for Intel for the second x16 PCIe
slot.” |
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HardOCP
“The ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 is a highly overclockable
performance powerhouse. It would seem ATI has improved on
the Xpress 200 in nearly every way.” |
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PC Perspectives – pcper.com
“ATI may just have the best overclocking
chipset we have ever seen”
“ The [CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset] was built
from the ground up with overclocking in mind, they built
quite a lot of headroom for those looking to push their
systems past the limits”
“… the ATI (CrossFire Xpress 3200) chipset … made
a splash on the PC Perspective test beds bringing new life
to the CrossFire platform with a great performing chipset
and a new overclocking edge over even the best motherboards
on the market”
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Hothardware.com
“ ATI is on the right track with the CrossFire
Xpress 3200 chipset”
“ [The CrossFire Xpress 3200] chipset as a whole
offers a very complete feature set”
“ The chipset has plenty of ‘headroom’ left,
as is evident by our excellent overclocking results”
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Legitreviews.com
“ Whether you're gaming with two top-of-the-line
ATI Radeon graphics cards such as the Radeon X1900 XTX or two
of ATI's mainstream graphics cards like the Radeon X1600,
the CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset is engineered to deliver
the ultimate blistering acceleration and maximum ease of
use in a multi-GPU gaming platform” |
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Motherboards.org
“ The
new ATI (CrossFire) Xpress 3200 chipset has a lot to offer
the enthusiast motherboard market. Featuring
the first true Dual-16X technology and geared for the CrossFire
VGA card setup the Asus A8R32-MVP may be the next generation
board we have been looking for” |
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FiringSquad.com
“During our (CrossFire Xpress 3200) RD580 briefing,
we were explicitly told that the chipset was overbuilt specifically
for overclocking. With this in mind we were eager to see how
high we could push our A8R32-MVP Deluxe motherboard, and we’re
happy to say that ASUS didn’t disappoint. We were able
to hit HyperTransport speeds of up to 334MHz without any problems”
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Europe, Middle East, Africa
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Xbit Laboratories
“So, is the new CrossFire Xpress 3200 platform
from ATI a worthy reply to Nvidia’s nForce4 SLI X16?
After we’ve done our tests, we can answer this question
in the affirmative. Nvidia’s long-time rival, the Canadian
ATI Technologies Company, has developed a chipset which is
not only comparable to the nForce4 SLI X16 in capabilities but
is also far superior in the concept.” |
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PC Games Hardware, Germany
" With (CrossFire Xpress 3200) RD580, ATI has
without a doubt a hot product that will excite high-end users
most importantly because of its overclocking abilities."
" A X1600 can profit from the dual X16 in (CrossFire
Xpress 3200) RD580 with up to 19 per cent more performance." |
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Muropaketti, Finland
"Performance boost in 3D applications really
surprised me, and for an overclocker like me, ATI's (CrossFire
Xpress 3200) RD580 reference design and its overclocking potential
is like a dream come true." |
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Hardware Info Netherlands
"...the new Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe has the the
cool stuff the A8N32-SLI Deluxe has. It only 'misses' the heatpipes,
which is a good thing in the end, since the ATI chip (CrossFire
Xpress 3200) doesn't need them. For an enthusiast, the board
is definitely an excellent alternative to the nForce 4 boards,
especially thanks to the great overclocking possibilities and
the low power usage..."
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Bit-Tech
UK
"Even more impressive was the fact that we could
leave the HTT multiplier forced to 5.0x, giving a HTT bus speed
of 1380MHz - this is far beyond anything we've ever seen before.
The fact that the board was as stable as we found it at its
default clock speeds was verging on hard to believe. We were
able to replicate these results with an Athlon 64 FX-60, too.
To say that we were impressed by the overclocking capabilities
of this motherboard and chipset combination is something of
an understatement… …it's the best early-sample
mainboard we've seen for a long time - it was a pleasure just
to unpack it and fire it up.”
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Clubic.com, France
“Thanks
to its (CrossFire) Xpress 3200, ATI offers to its CrossFire
multi-VPU technology 2 PCI Express ports
completely operational, since both work in x16“ |
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Presence-PC.com, France
“Its 2 main features are the management of 2
PCI Express 16x lanes with a single chip and an extraordinary
overclocking potential.” |
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Computerbase Germany
”Good job, ATI!“
” Very clear, ATI offers at the moment the better
x16-technology as there is no bottleneck as with Nvidia between
the two x16-chips in form of the HAT-Links. Also, the new
production process with 0,11 µm is more modern, needs
less space and less power.”
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HW Zone
“The CrossFire Xpress 3200 is aimed at gamers
and overclockers who are looking for uncompromising performance,
high stability and unprecedented overclocking abilities.” |
Asia Pacific
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PCWatch
"There is no bottleneck in ATI CrossFire Xpress
3200 compared to NVIDIA nForce4 SLIx16"
" CrossFire Xpress 3200 have higher overclocking capabilities for enthusiast
gamers" |
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4gamer.net
"CrossFire Xpress 3200 deliver "TRUE" Dual
PCI Express x 16"
" Xpress Route function connect two PCI Express x 16 directly, nForce4 connect
them via NB"
" CrossFire Xpress 3200 support 40 lanes of PCI Express" |
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ASCII24
"Xpress 3200 deliver Dual PCI Express x 16
support, High overclocking capability, Superior stability"
" Xpress Route enable to improve the performance up to 25%"
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MYCOM
PC WEB
"CrossFire Xpress 3200 have a positive effect
on dual graphics solution, not only X1900XTX, but X1600/X1300"
" CrossFire Xpress is engineered to deliver "Overclocking"
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4gamer.net
"Improved performance of X1600XT CrossFire is
noticeable result"
" CrossFire Xpress 3200 have a dramatic effect on X1600XT non-cable CF |
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ITmedia
+D Update
Read the full review… |
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Yesky.com
CrossFire Xpress 3200 offers better overclocking
optimization for high-end gamers - more parameters to choose,
more application environments to fit your own systems, CrossFire
Xpress 3200 will be the best pick for overclockers.
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Mydrivers.com
Given its feature-rich product sets, optimized
overclocking capability, brand-new architecture PCI Express
2x16 lane and well recognized stability, all these lead
to a promising success of ATI’s chipset solution!
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Hardspell.com
CrossFire Xpress 3200 is unbeatable in terms of
PCI Express lane utilization and data transmission, this
will put competition far behind. The high speed transmission
rate not just benefits high-end dual graphics, but also
benefits mid-low dual graphics like X1600 and X1300.
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ZOL.com
CrossFire Xpress 3200 doesn’t need to lower
HTT frequency to achieve over-clocking results, that said
end user can overclock CPU at 1600 HTT frequency, this will
drastically optimize overall performance.
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Bodnara.co
ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 controls dual x16 PCI
Express on single chip, there is no bottleneck in transmitting
data. It would definitely beat nVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16.
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Game
Donga
Amazingly, ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 designed to
enable up to 60% overclocking capability.
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AVING
ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 is the first single chipset
which supports “real” dual X16 PCI Express in
the world.
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Brainbox
In the overclocking test movie clip, I saw the
unbelievable points over 19,000 at 3D mark 05. The overclocking
capability is remarkable - ATI broke the world record again!
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Danawa
Key point to win competition is that CrossFire
Xpress 3200 truly utilizes dual x16 PCIe lanes, running
at higher speed without bandwidth bottleneck.
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Game
Hankook
ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 shows enhanced graphic
performance compared with Xpress 200 though the dual 16
lanes PCI express control on a single chip.
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Digitimes
ATI launches CrossFire Xpress 3200 for AMD’s
platform
ATI launches CrossFire 3200 which is the first chipset support
dual x16 PCI Express performance and AMD’s socket
939 K8 CPU and is generally considered ATI’s answer
to Nvidia’s nForce4 SLI x16 high-end chipset.
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ChinaTimes
To compete with NVIDIA's nForce chipset, ATI introduces
the latest product CrossFire Xpress 3200 (Code-named:RD580).
Xpress 3200 was developed from the ground up for multi-GPU
gaming, and provides the fastest gaming performance for
game enthusiasts.
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Economics
Daily
Aim at mainstream market ATI launches CrossFire
Xpress 3200
ATI launched CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset yesterday. The
product targets at mainstream and middle-range motherboard
market and it’s available from ATI partners including
ABIT, ASUS and DFI right now.
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OC
Heaven
ATI launches the new generation CrossFire
chipset - CrossFire Xpress 3200 (Code-named: RD580). Compared
to RD480, ATI upgrades the architecture of CrossFire Xpress
3200 from[x8+x8] to [x16+x16], and will support AMD K8 and
AM2 CPU. CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset also enables the
world’s fastest gaming performance and advanced overclocking
capabilities.
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Coolaler.com
Sapphire Introduces Pure CrossFire XPRESS 3200
Mainboards
Building on the success of its new generation motherboards,
Sapphire Technology has just announced two new models in
its PURE CrossFire series which are the first products to
offer true x16 performance on both PCI-Express slots in
a dual GPU system together with a host of advanced features
delivering top performance and quality to enthusiasts and
value to system builders.
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Gamer
ATI launches pure dual x16 PCI-Express chipset
product [CrossFire Xpress 3200] yesterday. CrossFire Xpress
3200 chipset for AMD-based desktop motherboards enables
the world's fastest gaming performance plus advanced overclocking
capabilities for hardcore PC enthusiasts. ATI partners such
as ABIT, ASUS, DFI and Sapphire will be shipping CrossFire
Xpress 3200 motherboards starting today.
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Chinese
Metropolitan News
This coverage based on ATI’s news release
which mentions that ATI has changed the rules of the motherboard
industry with the introduction of its CrossFire Xpress 3200
chipset—delivering the enthusiast gaming platform
of the future. Developed from the ground up for multi-GPU
gaming, the CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset enables the world’s
fastest gaming performance, advanced overclocking capabilities
and bedrock stability available in an AMD-based PC motherboard
today.
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OCworkbench
ATi officialy announce the availability of boards
based on its new ATi RD580 chipset. As you are probably
aware, the RD580 was ATi's CrossFire answer to the Dual
16x PCIe platform. Although it is probably good enough for
most users, bandwidth requirement for the high end graphics
card seems to be the trend. RD580 is clear to challenge
the NF4 SLIx16 as both are aiming for higher PCIe lanes.
In this case, RD580 supports Dual 16X PCIe for CrossFire
with a single chipset using Xpress Route.
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Hardwarezone
ATI's CrossFire Xpress 3200 raises the bar
on platform 3D performance and features
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