Good Day...
I was held up an extra day on my trip late last week to AMD. While I would love to discuss what we saw, NDA prevents it. All I can say is that November through February will be a "very interesting time" for new product releases from AMD, this includes chipsets, GPUs, and of course CPUs.
On to the schedule -
NV7150 boards - I feel like I wasted the last three days testing these boards to some degree. We had numerous problems but after a whirlwind cycle of BIOS updates yesterday and an overnight marathon session of testing, I would say the boards are ready to be fully reviewed and released. 11/17**********
AMD690G -
Just about finished up with it but AMD provided new BIOS code last week (overclocking is excellent now if that is important) and the 7.9 drivers took advantage of some of the changes with improved IGP performance, especially in HD playback. I am retesting a few items now and will update tonight on the results and if we should take a another look at the IGP performance before publishing. I will provide a final update by tomorrow morning if we release it this week or wait until early next week and retest the five boards. Going up week of 11/17*****
G31/G965-
We have four new boards in-house and will publish the week of 11/26 ****.
G35-
It looks like early November now, will update once we have final silicon to test *** no changes. *** Boards are held again, drivers still not up to par, late November, move to December 5th launch now**********
Compatibility Chart-
This list of components that we tried in each uATX board will be published next week along with a pass/fail report for each board. This will become a standard feature in each motherboard article starting in mid-October. Finished, posting shortly.
uATX System Guide-
An overview of buildups including a SOHO, HTPC, and Gaming machine is coming shortly along with platform versus platform testing of each configuration against a similarly equipped ATX setup.
uATX Linux Testing -
Our first results will be published this month and we are looking to make this a monthly feature for all boards now.
Input Devices/Audio/Storage/Chassis/GPU Image Quality Results-
These articles will start in a couple of weeks and finish up in early November. I think the audio article will be the most interesting one and probably the most controversial.
I was held up an extra day on my trip late last week to AMD. While I would love to discuss what we saw, NDA prevents it. All I can say is that November through February will be a "very interesting time" for new product releases from AMD, this includes chipsets, GPUs, and of course CPUs.
On to the schedule -
NV7150 boards - I feel like I wasted the last three days testing these boards to some degree. We had numerous problems but after a whirlwind cycle of BIOS updates yesterday and an overnight marathon session of testing, I would say the boards are ready to be fully reviewed and released. 11/17**********
AMD690G -
Just about finished up with it but AMD provided new BIOS code last week (overclocking is excellent now if that is important) and the 7.9 drivers took advantage of some of the changes with improved IGP performance, especially in HD playback. I am retesting a few items now and will update tonight on the results and if we should take a another look at the IGP performance before publishing. I will provide a final update by tomorrow morning if we release it this week or wait until early next week and retest the five boards. Going up week of 11/17*****
G31/G965-
We have four new boards in-house and will publish the week of 11/26 ****.
G35-
It looks like early November now, will update once we have final silicon to test *** no changes. *** Boards are held again, drivers still not up to par, late November, move to December 5th launch now**********
Compatibility Chart-
This list of components that we tried in each uATX board will be published next week along with a pass/fail report for each board. This will become a standard feature in each motherboard article starting in mid-October. Finished, posting shortly.
uATX System Guide-
An overview of buildups including a SOHO, HTPC, and Gaming machine is coming shortly along with platform versus platform testing of each configuration against a similarly equipped ATX setup.
uATX Linux Testing -
Our first results will be published this month and we are looking to make this a monthly feature for all boards now.
Input Devices/Audio/Storage/Chassis/GPU Image Quality Results-
These articles will start in a couple of weeks and finish up in early November. I think the audio article will be the most interesting one and probably the most controversial.