Wednesday, November 15th 2006
AMD Renames ATI CrossFire Xpress Chipsets
ATI's two performance chipsets CrossFire Xpress 1600 and CrossFire Xpress 3200 will be renamed once again. The ATI CrossFire Xpress 1600 chipset will be renamed to AMD 480X CrossFire. This is the second time the RD480 chipset has been renamed. It was previously named Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire until ATI changed it to CrossFire Xpress 1600 to match the then newly released RD580 Radeon Xpress 3200 nomenclature. Features of the AMD 480X CrossFire remain unchanged. The chipset still supports two half-speed PCI Express x16 slots in CrossFire with a PCIe link to the SB450, SB460 or SB600 south bridges. The enthusiast ATI RD580 CrossFire Xpress 3200 will be renamed AMD 580X CrossFire. Features of the AMD 580X CrossFire will remain the same. The chipset will continue to support two full-speed PCIe x16 slots with a PCIe link to the SB450, SB460 and SB600 south bridges.
Source:
DailyTech
10 Comments on AMD Renames ATI CrossFire Xpress Chipsets
Needless to say those who are loyal to name brand will not buy this. Gee, I wonder why? LOL
I gotta feeling they are going to do this to the ATI video cards as well. This shows way to much emo IMO.
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but a daamit chipset would sound better :p