CeBit 2003
Abit
3DNews: At the expo, Abit exhibited new motherboards built on Intel's Canterwood and Springdale chipsets. When will their official announcement be held?
Abit Initially, Canterwood (i875p) will be presented in about early April. As you see, the boards are ready by now, but we are waiting for an official announcement from Intel.
Abit IC7-G (Canterwood)
Close to it, there is an info plate
saying the chipset runs at 1000Mhz FSBAs for the release of Springdale P/PE, the boards will be announced somewhere in May, - at least such are Intel's current plans. I don't think they will be changed.
Abit IS7-E (Springdale P)3DNews: What are the differences between these chipsets?
Abit Canterwood is aimed at the hi-end workstations market. That is, the ECC (support for memory error correction) implementation is mandatory. Another difference is the presence of Performance Acceleration Technology (PAT mod), a new technology of Intel's. Springdale offers neither this nor that, but FSB 800Mhz and Dual DDR 400 stay as before.
Notes by 3DNews: To attain nominal operation modes in Springdale and Canterwood, a combination of the following three factors is necessary - an FSB 800MHz processor (to be announced by Intel next week), DDR400 memory and not as a single bunch but two absolutely identical, and better than that - specially optimized for dual-channel operation.
3DNews: What is the performance difference between these chipsets?
Abit 4-5%.
3DNews: Abit was the first to announce the BH7 board built on the i845PE chipset designed for FSB 800 MHz instead of the required 533 MHz, now you are demonstrating the IC7-G with FSB 1000 MHz instead of 800 MHz. What should we call it? Is it simply overclocking or something else?
Abit Our engineers have invested lots of efforts into optimizing the most complex ever wiring of motherboards and we guarantee stable operation of our solutions at increased speeds. The most difficult part is calculate the critical points and distribute them over the board to eliminate mutual induction.
3DNews: Let's talk about the new VIA KT400A chipset ...
Abit Initially, VIA released a new version of KT400A, but as it always happens with them, they added the only addition - support for DDR400 in the North Bridge. The South Bridge remained unchanged. We decided to leave this chipset out since it doesn't offer any performance boost. Currently, VIA is working at next revision through introducing support for Serial ATA into the South Bridge, and Abit will present this board based on just this option. At least, it gives some increased functionality. All what is being demonstrated at the expo is the first revision of KT400A which doesn't make much sense to be produced and released. In any case, the single-channel memory is less productive. Today's industrial standard is dual-channel solutions and all companies except VIA have presented them.
3DNews: Like all nVidia's partners, Abit has presented new video cards on all the three GPUs - SiluroFX5800 (NV30), SiluroFX5600 (NV31) and SiluroFX5200 (NV34). How many modifications will be released and what are the differences?
Abit Each chip will be presented on two video cards - of the regular make and the Ultra make. The difference is in the frequencies of the core and memory. There are six cards altogether:
- SiluroFX5800 Ultra - 500/1000Mhz DDR2
- SiluroFX5800 - 400/800Mhz DDR2
- SiluroFX5600 Ultra - 350/750Mhz
- SiluroFX5600 - 325/550Mhz
- SiluroFX5200 Ultra - 325/650Mhz
- SiluroFX5200 - 250/400Mhz
SiluroFX5800 DOTH
SiluroFX5600 DT
SiluroFX5200 DT3DNews: What do the DOTH and DT stand for in the card names?
A: D stands for DVI, O for OTES, T for TV-Out, and H for Hardware Monitor.
3DNews: Thank you for the interview and wish you a good luck for the other days at the expo :-)
Those interviewed are:
Lay Lu, research and development engineer;
Nora Lee, multimedia group expert;
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