Tuesday, December 4, 2007

CrossFire Sweep the Market

Good news to all avid fans of Dual-GPU technology! After the successful launch of NVIDIA’s SLI technology, MSI is now adopting ATi’s Dual-GPU technology named CrossFire to its RD480 Neo2 motherboard specifically tailored for 3D game devotees. This motherboard promises to deliver immensely improved performance for all games and significantly more stable operation.

Most-awaited Dual GPU Technology is finally here

Based on the most-awaited ATi RADEON XPRESS 200 Crossfire Dual-GPU architecture, the MSI RD480 Neo2 motherboard delivers unmatched graphics performance and offers gamers tons of advanced features that will help boost up their performance to the next level.

The CrossFire is ATI’s alternative to NVIDIA’s SLI Dual-GPU system. ATi’s CrossFire solution fundamentally does the same thing as SLI. But SLI requires two absolutely identical graphics card while CrossFire uses the PCI Express bus allowing a bit a more flexibility and improving the performance doubled

Superior Audio Fidelitya

The RD480 Neo2 also adopts the ULi M1573 south bridge which integrates the latest HD Audio supported, delivering high-quality multi-channel audio experiences.

The RD480 Neo2 features an excellent 7.1 channel audio solution which is compliant with HD Audio spec. and has a full complement of analogue jacks, plus optical and coaxial S/PDIF audio input/output for connecting professional audio equipment. The RD480 Neo2 offers gamers an enriching multimedia experience.

A Plethora of Overclocking Capabilities

Being the first Dual-GPU platform of ATi, the RD480 Neo2 definitely has plenty of overclocking capabilities, besides the well-known D.O.T (Dynamic Overclocking Technology), users can adjust the CPU, memory, PCI Express frequency, and voltage individually, to reach the best performance with desired components. According to the test results, RD480 Neo2 can reach 600MHz FSB without any special setting, which works hand-in-hand with DDR600 memory module, giving a high-speed experience to users.

Exclusive CoreCell Technology Onboard

The RD480 Neo2 comes with MSI’s exclusive CoreCell technology, providing intellengent status monitor, human friendly adjustment and online update. You can also expand with one PCI Express x1 port and two 32-Bit PCI slots (v2.2 compliant), including exclusive Communication Slot which is optimized for MSI network cards. For greater flexibility, it also supports 10 USB 2.0 connectors so you can connect USB hard disk drives and memory sticks for easy network backup or data access and three IEEE 1394 ports for connecting various 1394 devices.

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