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Introduction
Back in mid-November,
we took our first look at the reference part for ATI's entry into the
market for PCI Express Athlon 64 boards, in the form of their Radeon
Xpress 200 chipset. The reference design gave us a stable platform
that didn't shirk its duties on the performance front, as well as
offering as close to a cutting-edge integrated GPU as you can find,
offering DirectX 9 functionality with shading performance that wasn't to
be sniffed at given its on-board nature.
Of course what you, the
users, really want to see is final, shipping, boards based around this
RX480 chipset, and January 2005 looks set to be the time when this will
come to pass. As a result, we are now seeing engineering sample
boards from certain manufacturers, and today we will be looking at one
such board - EQS' A58XK9-ALF motherboard. This particular board
makes use of the Radeon Xpress 200P chipset, meaning that it is sans the
integrated video functionality of the standard Xpress 200 variant, but
otherwise contains all of the features seen in the reference design.
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