FIRST LOOK: ULi M1695 PCIe/AGP Socket 939 for Athlon 64
by Wesley Fink on July 13, 2005 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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Basic Features: ULi AP9507A (M1695/M1567)
| ULi AP9507A (M1695/M1567) | |
| CPU Interface | Socket 939 Athlon 64 |
| Chipset | ULi M1695 Northbridge - ULi M1567 Southbridge |
| BUS Speeds | 200MHz to 400MHz in 1MHz Increments |
| PCIe Speeds | 75-125MHz in 1MHz Increments |
| PCI/AGP | Fixed at 33/66 |
| Core Voltage | Startup, 0.825V to 1.55V in 0.025V increments |
| CPU Clock Multiplier | Startup, 4x-25x in 1X increments |
| HyperTransport Frequency | 1000MHz (1GHz) |
| HyperTransport Multiplier | 200, 400, 600, 800, 1000 |
| DRAM Voltage | NO Adjustments |
| HyperTransport Voltage | NO Adjustments |
| Memory Slots | Four 184-pin DDR DIMM Slots Dual-Channel Configuration Regular Unbuffered Memory to 4GB Total |
| Expansion Slots | 1 PCIe x16 (or 2 PCIe x8) 1 AGP 8X 2 PCIe x1 2 PCI Slots |
| Onboard SATA/RAID | 2 SATA Drives by ULi M1567 (RAID 0, 1, JBOD) |
| Onboard IDE/IDE RAID | Two Standard ATA133/100/66 (4 drives) |
| Onboard USB 2.0/IEEE-1394 | 8 USB 2.0 ports supported by ULi M1567 No Firewire (Optional) |
| Onboard LAN | 10/100 Ethernet by Realtek PNY (Gigabit LAN Optional) |
| Onboard Audio | AC '97 2.3 6-Channel by Realtek ALC655 |
| BIOS Revision | Award OC50624A (6/24/2005) |
The ULi Award BIOS provides a wide range of BIOS control options, particularly considering that this is a Reference Board used to qualify a chipset. The wide 200 to 400 range for CPU clock was a pleasant surprise, but it is somewhat academic with no memory voltage controls present in the BIOS.
The included vCore adjustments and PCIe speed adjustments were also a nice addition, although the range to just 1.55V is very limited for Clawhammer processors, which are 1.50V at default.
Since the ULi implementation of AGP is real AGP and not derived, the AGP adjustments will look familiar to AGP owners.
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Reference Boards are designed for qualification and not for production. It would therefore be a mistake to dwell on the Reference Board layout, except to say that Reference Boards often influence layout of production boards. IDE, SATA, video slots and bottom edge headers all work fine where they are located. However, we hope that production boards will take a different approach to the location of the 24-pin ATX power connector. Located in about the center of the board between the CPU and rear IO ports, there is really no good way to route the heavy cable. In the center of the board, you have to be careful not to interfere with air flow or operation of the CPU and memory.
The location of the floppy connector at the bottom of the board will be a long reach for floppy users. Many buyers don't care about floppies any more, but if you still use them, the bottom of the board is an inconvenient and hard-to-reach location.
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val - Friday, July 15, 2005 - link
#47 mino, you are pushing arguments which have nothing to do with real world. UV radiation in that level makes no harm, do not forget to hide your self on the sun. AMD fanboys started to talk about heating and all this crap, 100W bulb heats your room with 86W you wise guy.And energy efficienty? Close to here is powerplant for military research which have dedicated 2x400MNW power plant. So who cares? This is 10.000.000 PCs which is amount of families here and caring for that no PC runs 100% load all the time.
Costs? I dont know about you, but i am just out of school and even when it would be 200 euro per year difference, I CANNOT SEE THAT! And again! Show me somebody who have gaming PC running games 24/7.
So caring for energy and heat more than for stability and reliability is just finding nonsense weakpoint of platform YOU dont LIKE because you just want to be different and saying that popular "MAINSTREAM BS".
So calm down fanboys, AMD will never get market share their owners dreams they deserves.
PhoneZ - Friday, July 15, 2005 - link
I would almost never run a system without the chipset drivers. a VIA system could go down at any random point without the 4in1s, you need the Intel INF Updae to install the SMBus, and Windows doesnt have drivers for any of the nForce chipset hardware. Bbut I will admit that i won't install the SIS IDE cause that can cause system to becoe unstable. nForce can be very stable but has alot of bugs that can destroy yer OS if you dont disable certain features(ie firewall).nserra - Friday, July 15, 2005 - link
All platforms are good, but i admit the drivers suck. Keep the default OS ones and all runs good.I have the default XP drivers on my SIS board and all runs stable and fast.
This new Uli is looking good, specialy for my 9700 card.
My ex nforce2 took 1 year and half to get stable, and to get the sound card working right.
Cygni - Friday, July 15, 2005 - link
Wtf, Nforce is unstable? Wow. Could have fooled me... havent rebooted for a few weeks.Honestly, the Intel vs AMD fanboy attacks are hillarious, because both know approximatly nothing.
Both platforms are rock solid, period. Stability isnt even a legitimate argument anymore.
Xenoterranos - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link
Hey, now I can update to skt 939!mino - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link
#34;#44;#45 You're an idiot. No appologies.If Intel system uses 180W idle and AMD system 100W idle, it is NOT 20W difference.
And about your "energy efficient bulb" You forgot to mention that these bulbs emit UV radiation unlike traditional edison-style bulbs. So the light You get from them is NOT the light you get from traditional ones. In PC world, however the performance of A64 and P4 is interchangeable.
I don't believe You will get it.
But someone had to try...
mino - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link
#27 Don't insult Uli, we have yet to see good driver support from NVIDIA. VIA,SIS,Intel is the league Uli is playing in as far as driver support is concerned. ATI/nVidia have ONLY performance and ATI has good integrated graphics givers.val - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link
#37 my prescott is not throttling, i can install cooler correct." Anand said he had no problems at all with his reference board" they are testing it few hours at most, this is not prooven platform. nForce is still being good rated in newspapers, and look how crappy it is. Not talking about VIA.
"You must save tons of money on your electric bill in the winter." No, 20W makes no difference either for electric bill or warm in room. Go back to school. 70W i save by changing my bulb from 100W to energy efficient 20W one.
val - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link
#38 maybe you should next time give somebody 50$ to build and install computer for you if you are so LAME that you cannot build stable pc. And you believe me, that i didnt expected any other claim from AMD fanboy, and i know that you would say this even when it is not truth.stmok - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link
Forgot to add...The ASRock mobo is estimated to come at end of July! (Assuming no delays).