Abit SI7.....new rambus board

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New motherboards from Abit....one, the SI7, is rambus and uses the SIS 658/963 chip set.
It's due in november...read here. And about the chipset here and here.
Looks like it's for 16bit rambus supporting pc800 and pc1066.

 

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sounds yummy

 

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Ok guy's it's comming! Read here.

 

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Confirmed at the Abit-USA fourm! Late Febuary!

 

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This may mean I stay with rdram but what about my Th7II.
No I can;t part with it you can't make me

I'll just have to build another system

 

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Poor TH7II, I love mine too!
According to the spec list at the Abit forum, theres no raid listed. I know this is a moot subject right now, but I hope they add it.

One more artical.

 

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Market said it had 2 ATA standard, and 2 SATA serial connectors, I wouldn't think that it'd 4 ATA connectors without raid. But he didn't mention raid.

steve

 

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The SI7 is near!!!

"The ABIT SI7 supports up to 4 GB 1200/1066MHz RDRAM memory capacity and fully supports AGP8X interface for powerful graphics chips. In addition, the SiSR658/963 chipsets are also equipped with powerful multimedia functions, including 5.1 Channel AC'97 2.2 Audio, 10/100MB Ethernet, Home PNA2.0 and Dual ATA133/100/66 IDE Channels, six USB 2.0/1.1 ports, and three 1394a ports, which can fully meet the high end PC requirement."

Abit finally makes official announcement:

http://www.abit-usa.com/news/2003/20030123b.php

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1043345854

Pictures here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/index.html

http://www.hothardware.com/

 

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DrooooooooooooLLLL

 

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indeed

 

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I'll bet it gonna cost$$$$$.
Do ya think it will use the 800 mem???

 

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sis is normally very value oriented, even with high end platforms. i cant imagine it being anywhere near the price of the granite bay boards.
my th7ll is getting in the 37-3800 mem bm range. can you imagine this thing cranked up with a couple of pc1200 sticks in it?
oh yeah, rdram aint dead yet.

 

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Originaly quoted by Logger
Do ya think it will use the 800 mem???

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Will use only 32 bit memory, your old pc800 won't do. What the heck is Home PNA2.0? Anyone know?
I can't wait to see a compairison against Granite bay!

 

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Was hoping I could use it until I got enough cash for the 1200.
Are you sure I thought it was just faster. The 1066 is the same as the 800. Interchangable??? So wouldn't it just run slower????
Maybe?

 

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Sorry charlie, the SI7 uses the 4200 type rims where you only need to fill one slot.

 

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Nuff said thankyou.
I was on the Rambus site. Real confusing. there are 16,32,64 bit modules and Well I'll have to go back there some day when I gots more time.

 

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maxwedge said:

Sorry charlie, the SI7 uses the 4200 type rims where you only need to fill one slot.

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That's really to bad... I was really loking forward to this board when it was supposed to support my old rdram. Now that they've changed the specs on me, and I can't use the extra pc800 sticks I've got laying around, I'm going to have to skip this board

durrem

 

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Lookie here
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/articles/headlines/Hardware/2139/

16 bit 1200

 

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Hopefully the SI7 will: 1)support the Prescott with an 800 + Mhz FSB. Or will later. 2) overclock well with the Northwoods. 3) have an AGP/PCI lock. 4) work well with different brands of memory and video cards. 5)have Vdimm and Vcore adjustments in useable increments. 6) be stable and reliable.

 

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Latest word is mid to late febuary. I think if the board will run over 200 fsb then it may support Prescott.