ATI Socket M2 CrossFire to Arrive Soon

AMD’s new DDR 2 supporting socket M2 won’t see the light of the day until Q2 2006, but the chipset vendors are preparing for the migration. We still don’t know details about Nvidia Nforce 4 SLI for M2 although we know that Nvidia has one but ATI on the other hand is hoping to get samples of its chipset in December.

The chipset is called RD580 CF and we saw one other called RD580C listed as supporting socket M2 and Crossfire. Both chipsets have two by sixteen PCIe slot graphics support and we are starting to think that the same chipset might just be able to support both DDR1 and DDR 2 Athlon CPUs. If you think about it, the memory controller is inside AMD’s CPU not inside the chipsets.

the Inquirer