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ABIT Confirms NVIDIA MCP-S with Serial ATA-150 Controller?

AN7 Transpires
by Anton Shilov
10/13/2003 | 11:57 AM

Earlier this year we told you about NVIDIA nForce2 MCP-S I/O controller for the nForce2-series core-logic sets with Serial ATA-150 support. The company itself remained very tight-lipped on the matter and after massive announcement of different nForce3 products at Computex Taipei 2003 we even started to think that NVIDIA had cancelled the project and its Socket A chipset will never see native Serial ATA-150 support. Apparently, NVIDIA Corporations did not cancel any projects and is now even ready to ship the MCP-S as a part of ABIT AN7 mainboard, some unofficial sources revealed!


Basically, Socket A technology began to become out of date morally right after the AMD Athlon 64 launch. However, the quantities and pricing of AMD Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX-51 chips still leave quite a lot of space for previous-generation processors even in the high-end of the market. Therefore, NVIDIA, being a very aggressive chipset company, could not miss the opportunity to offer a solution able to compete with rivals’ SiS964 and VIA VT8237 that already have built-in Serial ATA-150 RAID capabilities. Moreover, before implementing the Serial ATA-150 controller into more complex nForce3 core-logic, NVIDIA might need some extra experience with its silicon implementation and in order to get it, the company might need to release a product with built-in Serial ATA-150 logic. Furthermore, if rumors about NVIDIA nForce chipset for Intel Pentium 4 and Prescott processors have ground, the Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA will also need a separate I/O chip supporting Serial ATA-150.

ABIT is aimed strictly on enthusiasts market and always deploys the latest innovations in order to constantly offer the cutting-edge technology. Its AN7 was announced during Computex Taipei 2003 show as a yet-another NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 mainboard, but, as we see now, this is not a typical nForce2 product:

Supports Socket A AMD Athlon XP processors with 200/266/333/400MHz FSB;
NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset, including MCP-S I/O controller;
3 DIMM slots for up to 3GB of PC2100, PC2700 or up to 2GB of PC3200 memory; Note that for dual-channel configurations you have to install a pair of identical memory modules;
5 PCI slots and 1 AGP 8x slot;
2-channel ATA-33/66/100/133 integrated controller;
2 Serial ATA-150 ports;
10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller;
6 USB 2.0 ports;
6-channel NVIDIA SoundStorm audio solution with S/PDIF;
ABIT Engineered technologies + ABIT mGuru chip;
ATX Form Factor.
The ABIT AN7 mainboard is supposed to become the last advanced Socket A platform from ABIT. The AN7 will doubtless be among the company’s high-end offerings till mid Q1 2004 and after that there will be no need in expensive Socket A solutions.

Pricing of the AN7 mainboard is to be announced by the end of October, when the product is expected to hit the retail shelves.


若加上之前傳出的KV7-Ⅱ
Socket A 市場還有的瞧哩

資料來源 X-bit

MCP2-T都快熱爆了
再加sata.......:jolin:

跟nf7-s比起來多了mGuru ,不過1394沒了
希望usb相容性有改進

呵呵 我想mcp-s延遲產出 大概就是因為太熱的問題吧
之前忘記在哪看到說為了S-ATA 要把APU取消
只是從上面的規格來看 只有取消1394而已
anyway ABIT的動作還蠻積極的
反正只要SIS不解決他們跟BIOS公司的問題
我倒是很樂意繼續用VIA跟nvidia的主機板晶片組產品

不知道會有多貴;)

希望能早日看到測試報告

http://www.abit.com.tw/page/ta/index.php
已經正式發表了
NF7-S可望開始降價!

有取消1394嗎
我看規格表
還有ㄋㄟ
該不會是我看錯了吧:confused:

南橋還是MCP-T!!!不是MCP-S
nvidia的新南橋遲遲無法量產:jolin:

AN7的中文版發佈說明並未提及採用MCP-S
http://www.abit.com.tw/page/ta/news...OCNO=ta_0311041

「為了提昇與週邊配備的連接性，AN7搭配了兩組1394火線接頭及六組USB2.0接頭！」

1394若不是額外晶片，顯然仍是MCP-T，
照片上很明顯SI3112A也還在，不可能是MCP-S了。

北橋風扇多了轉速偵測的樣子，IDE port的位置也略有不同，
一些插槽多了色彩、背版USB 2組變4組少了一組com port
（多出的2組USB上方是好像還多個1394？），
最大特色多了μGuru......
還有任何和NF7-S 2.0的巨大差別嗎？
乾脆叫NF7-S 3.0或NF7-S μGuru版好了:think:

"反正只要SIS不解決他們跟BIOS公司的問題".......能說來聽聽嗎?