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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ULi M1695 Chipset
The ULi M1695 chipset supports Socket 754, 939, and 940. 1000 HT (5X) and higher are fully supported.
The M1695 provides a PCI Express Interface that can drive either 1 x16 slot of 2 x8 slots. The 2 x8 configuration is called SLI on NVIDIA motherboards, and the option of x16 or 2 x8 is even available in this Reference Board BIOS.
ULi has even been showing an x16 riser card that can be used to support 2 bridged x8 PCIe video cards from a single x16 PCIe slot. Apparently, this is just one of several options to provide "SLI-like" performance with two PCIe cards.
From this basic PCI Express Tunnel chip, ULi talks about flexibility.
Combined with a M1567 South Bridge, as is this Reference Board, you can achieve AGP 8X and PCIe x16/2 x8 combined with support for PCI graphics.
Combining M1695 with an unnamed ULi South Bridge can provide dual x16 slots and additional x1/x2/x4 slots.
Obviously, ULi designed M1695 and the accompanying South Bridges for the utmost in flexibility. With support for 754/939/940 and all the various combinations that can be used to provide custom graphics capabilities, you will likely see many different ULi configurations in the marketplace.
The flexibility even extends beyond the ULi brand, as the South Bridges can be combined with other North Bridges such as the ATI Crossfire. Similarly, the M1695 can be combined with other chips such as the AMD-8132 PCI-X Tunnel for customized Workstation/Server Applications.
More capabilities can be added with more ULi South Bridges on top of the M1695/AMD-8132.
ULi talks about the flexibility of their M1695 chipset, and we certainly agree. It is refreshing to see so many available choices that give manufacturers the options of building everything from the most basic Socket 754 boards to full-featured 939/940 workstation/server boards with dual x16 PCIe slots and more.
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stmok - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link
Try that...Does that work?[url]http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/newspro/viewnew...[/url]
stmok - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link
Check it out...ASRock's 939Dual-SATA2
[url]http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/newspro/viewnew...[/url
Supports AGP, PCI-Express, and a CPU Upgrade feature (Supports Socket M2).
Manzelle - Thursday, July 14, 2005 - link
#39 - Ditto.saiku - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link
aha, I can now stop thinking about what I'll get on Ebay for my 6800GT AGP card. Awesome !karlreading - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link
number 34 - ur so silly.i run a amd system and a p4 system. believe me, my pentium 4 is far less stable and BSOD's way more thsan my AMD system.
so there!
Karlos!
Avalon - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link
#34 - "Underdog CPU on underdog chipset manufactured by underdog mobo maker. This sounds like nice BSOD generator for me.Blank"
Since when were Gigabyte and Abit underdog board makers? They've been around for a while. Anyway, Anand said he had no problems at all with his reference board, so why would you believe that just because the board would be in your hands that it would suddenly become unstable? Afraid it's the AMD? Think again. In fact, while you're doing that, enjoy your Prescott throttling and causing your computer to shut down. You must save tons of money on your electric bill in the winter.
PhoneZ - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link
#25 "I'd want to know what the drivers are like and no matter how good this chipset is, I doubt it's driver support will be as good as the nVidia."Have you seen how bad the nVidia nForce support has been?
Checkout the nVidia mobo forum:
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s=a549406b86b65...
The Firewall has never worked, the nVRAID while versatile has numerous quirks (Randomly degraded arrays and lock ups with NCQ/TCQ enabled), the nForce3 has compatibility problems with nVidia video cards. Also with some new nForce4 boards the current driver version doesnt have audio support so your forced to use the realtek one on the CD, which sucks.
The nForce 4 has been out for quite some time now, and the problems people are having seem to go un-addressed. I have and Nforce4 SLI board and they can be run stable but you have to disable features that are potential selling features of the chipset.
Furen - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link
wow val, stop fanning the flames ^^val - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link
Underdog CPU on underdog chipset manufactured by underdog mobo maker. This sounds like nice BSOD generator for me.Megatomic - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - link
Oh yeah, this is what I've been hoping for. With one of these boards I can go SD core or X2 and continue to use my 6800GT AGP8X card. Oh happy day! :D