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The Xpress 200 is a computer chipset released by ATI. The chipset supports AMD 64-bit processors (Socket 939 and 754) as well as supporting Intel Pentium 4, Pentium D and Celeron processors (LGA775 and Socket 478). Additionally, it includes support for DDR400 RAM and DDR-2 667 RAM on the Intel Edition.
ATI has formally renamed its Radeon Xpress 200 (Crossfire Edition) chipset to CrossFire Xpress 1600, the company's website reveals.
The Xpress 200 comes in six different versions:
- Xpress 200
- Xpress 200P
- Xpress 200M
- Xpress 200 (Crossfire Edition)
- Xpress 200 for Intel
- Xpress 200 for Intel (Crossfire Edition)
- Early reference boards based on the AMD versions of the chipset were codenamed 'Bullhead' and later 'Grouper'. The AMD Crossfire reference board was codenamed 'Halibut'.
- Reference boards for the Intel version are codenamed 'Jaguar', with the Intel Crossfire edition codenamed 'Stingray'.
- The Xpress 200 is designed to compete with the nVidia nForce 4 chipset. Key differences include a lack of SATA2 support in any current version of the Xpress 200, and no integrated Gigabit Ethernet compared with the nForce 4.
[edit] Common Features
[edit] Xpress 200
- DDR-RAM support
- 5.1 / 7.1 audio support
[edit] Xpress 200P
- This contains all the features of the Xpress 200 chipset, and adds integrated graphics to the chipset.
- The integrated graphics are based on the ATI Radeon X300 GPU with full DirectX 9.0 support.
[edit] Xpress 200M
[edit] Xpress 200 Crossfire
- This adds support for ATI's multi-GPU technology called Crossfire. It is designed to compete with nVidia's SLI technology.
- Motherboards utilising this chipset will feature two 16x PCI-Express slots (although they will only operate at 8x when CrossFire is enabled).
[edit] Xpress 200 for Intel
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