View Full Version : AM2! Abit go in feet first! Aria have the info!
Abit have announced they will be launching 3 new boards THIS month to support AM2 Chips!
Abit KN9 SLI
4x Dual Channel DDR2 800, 2x PCIe x16 + Shadow Card, 7.1Ch Audio, 6x SATA Raid 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD NCQ, 2x IEE1394, Dual Gb LAN, ATX.
Abit KN9 Ultra
4x Dual Channel DDR2 800, 1x PCIe x16, 7.1Ch Audio, 6x SATA Raid 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD NCQ, Dual Gb LAN, ATX.
Abit KN9S
4x Dual Channel DDR2 800, 1x PCIe x16, 7.1Ch Audio, 4x SATA Raid 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD NCQ, Gb LAN, ATX.
AND... If demand requires... I will post up some pictures and pricing in the morning...
Whats your thoughts on the new Socket Chips? Worth sacrificing your memory timings for sheer MHz??
Personally i wont be rushing to buy a new setup based on AM2 till its been around for a while, call me synical and all that but i prefer to wait till any major bugs are sorted before i spend hundreds of £££ on a new setup.
Mhz vs timings, hmm well as we're talking LOADS faster :shock: than the norm for current amd setups its got to be MHz :twisted:
Ill be sticking to socket 939 for now.
Not intersted in DDR2 after its poor performance with intel.
Will wait for other's to try it and here some opinions.
Looks like The KN9 SLi will retail for around mid to high £90's
The KN9S is looking at around Low £80's
These prices are not set in stone, but will be on sale on aria.co.uk VERY soon.
They are also releasing the M519-IL-80MV. This sports Dual Core skt 479 (Mobile Processor) support, Integrated Intel gfx (with PCIe too), AND HDMI output. We are expecting the board to be way over the £100 mark but absolutely feature packed! No media centre should be without this board! Due to be release in July ish... Abit have been busy boys! Yes... I did say HDMI Output 8)
No a big fan of Abit boards, seen way to many die in my time. (Year and a half :D )
Unless work decides we need a few for testing purposes ill be waiting for DFI's 1st AM2 Chips or MSI
Sharky the Spider Eater
05-05-06, 06:04
whatever happened to gigabyte boards ?!?!
use to be big time players ...but now....
Gigabyte are still around & still a big time player, they make all the latest boards.
AM2 CPUs will be released on 23rd MAY... watch out for our AM2 Range. We should have them in a day after that.
:D Happy shopping
to be honest, i'm not that excited about am2, i just cannot see justice in spending £££'s for not that much benifit. think i'll wait till the next incarnation of the intel or amd.
Will be interesting to see what the new conroe with be like in the real world.
I'm happy staying with skt 939 at the moment as well. I don't feel a need to upgrade too much, system works really well!
Yea i agree 939 isnt that old but most people that bought 939 also got a PCI-E gfx card but i got an asrock mobo that allows me to use my current AGP card and when direct x 10 cards come out i can use a pci-e card also this mobo has a \"Future CPU Port\" so all i have to do is buy a cheap apdaptor and ive then got AM2 support as well :D
Any news on the intel version of these 590 SLI mobo's ?
Any idea when ull get any - or if anyones made any yet...
Seems the AM2 sockets been out ages now =(
Certain things puzzle me about the way things have progressed in recent years:
1) Why have intel users had the benefit of RIMMs since the 32bit p4s, and yet AMD remain maxed out at half the speed?
2)Why haven't we seen motherboard bus speeds go through the roof? I mean I know you get a 64 bit bus now but there's still relatively little to really get the performance right? Last check XPx64 was still junk and vista is not worth bothering with for 18 months after release. So why haven't we seen an increase in board bus speeds? Where's the benefit in a 64 bit processor at 200Mhz if your OS is still 32bit, a lot of the software for it is still 32bit and memory and board buses seem to have plateaud? I'm still learning the technical side of things so maybe I've missed something, but the focus seems to have been on clock speeds without any particular leap forward in motherboard techology
Yer i agree, there jumping ahead with cpu's but they just aint bovering to keep the rest of the tech upto the same standards as the new chips, i wonder y they are so lagging in the mobo tech area.. i mean the techs out there for wayyy better mobo's but there not doing it.. lol i guess we will have to start building our own mobo's !
Go to google images and type in lego computers and just watch the results lol i found computers made into beer coolers, coffee makers and alsorts its totaly hillerius specialy when ur tired but wide away on caffine drinks lol
ADDITION: dont sepose intel are gonna make a P5 soon lol
phil - 745
13-07-06, 21:26
i heard the day of the intel pentium is over, no more pentiums after 4...
(word on street, might not be 100% correct)
Nooooooooo i like the Pentiums... least you know what your getting somtimes i think they just rename them to confuse people into byeing ones they know nothing about lol so you have to upgrade later! :(
nah - they are definately faster!
Check out this thread.
Link (http://www.liquidninjas.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=105994)
Conroe E6600 ES. For those of you who are interested - this got a 1m SuperPi time of 14.328secs.
That was overclocked by 1ghz, but its all been done on air with a $10 HSF! I might be converted back to intel at this rate!
[quote:00ba271841=\"Aaron\"] I might be converted back to intel at this rate![/quote:00ba271841]
I can't help but echo this.
First time I've been tempted by Intel in about 5 years, I'll probably put off buying an AMD X2 and switch to Conroe if the early performance reports prove accurate.
lol i dunno about you guys but im well impressed with intels new chips.. :lol: if i get this new job im after il be blitzing aria for new parts hehe 8)
[quote:180d5ea17a=\"ipoo\"]AM2 CPUs will be released on 23rd MAY... watch out for our AM2 Range. We should have them in a day after that.
:D Happy shopping[/quote:180d5ea17a]
I made an order on here on the 16th May for an athlon x2 4400+ (939 socket) full system which I built myself using all parts bought from aria which cost me £627 (nearly half my money was spent on the athlon x2 which cost over £300 at the time) and although I was aware of the AM2 version being released I wasn't expecting the massive price reductions that occured almost instantly after being released....
The athlon x2 4400+ (939 socket) on aria at the moment is priced at £162.15 inc vat. Is there anything I can do to get some sort of part refund as I feel a bit cheated as its taken me this long to find out about it because of a faulty part Aria sent me in the first place.
The money I could of saved could of bought me a new x1900GT graphics card!
I'm not blaming aria or anyone for this change as new technology replaces the old etc... I just don't like feeling short changed ya know :wink:
All i can say dwarves88 is do your homework next time before you do a system buy...
Intel have announced price cuts since 23rd July - AMD followed suit very quickly after...
:)
Sorry but if you want the 'new' bits as soon as they come out - you will feel cheated as there isnt many around so price is high :)
Only person to blame really is yourself - Aria more than likely wont do anything about this - dwarves88 if you gave me one good reason too ? :)
I mean aria is a business afterall - and if you look elsewhere \"hESeller\" or \"Navohcet\" they all did the same thing :) at around the same time...
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