| [News] Amigaone has the Mentor ARC ARTICIA S chipset: is it a TERON CX board ? | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 27-Feb-2002 15:17 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 76 comments
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If you look at the pitures of the AmigaOne you can see the brand/model of the NorthBridge.
Here is a link that give you more information about it.
I like particularly this article that says Pentium 3, Pentium 4 performance at half the price.
The Amigaone look to be exactely a Teron CX.
Lets just hope that YOU guys order enough AmigaOne to get lower and lower prices.
I guess Bplan used the Articia S to build the Pegasos.
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| Amigaone has the Mentor ARC ARTICIA S chipset: is it a TERON CX board ? : Comment 38 of 76 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Graham on 27-Feb-2002 17:47 GMT | In reply to Comment 32 (Mika Hanhijärvi):
Technically, the Artica S chipset is only a northbridge, you can use any southbridge design that you like, as long as it has a PCI interface connection to the northbridge (VIA 686A, 868B, 8231 (used in the Pegasos, IIRC), ALi, AMD766). I am sure that MAI are also working on updated versions of the Artica S to support faster AGP and some form of fast interconnect to the southbridge as PCI based southbridges are getting rarer these days with HyperTransport, v-link, Multiol and other chipset interconnects - I would guess HyperTransport as there will be many companies supporting that as the chipset interconnect (ALI, nVidia, AMD, SiS).
*IF* the Pegasos uses the same northbridge, then they only have AGP2x, yet I have seen AGP4x claimed, so there is a strong chance that they are using a different chipset. Regardless, the Pegasos will be a smaller board, more optimised for layout than the AmigaOne, which is basically a rebadged evaluation board (not that this is bad of course).
Looking at the AmigaOne board pictures, the missing connector is the Ethernet port, and the space for the Ethernet chip is just below and to the left of it - looks like a space for an Intel networking chip to me. If the AmigaOne uses the 8231, then that has built-in audio and ethernet, so this might be a hint of what is used.
The Artica S will be costing Eyetech $30 a pop, which is a pretty good price in general for PC chipsets which waver between $20 and $40. The high price of the AmigaOne in comparison to PC motherboards is purely because of the relatively low manufacturing run, where high setup costs are not offset by a extended manufacturing process, and the need to make some money and pay for the development of the old design AmigaOne (were any of these ever made that could work?) in addition to what work has been done on the new design.
I believe that is would be popular amongst Linux users, and I think Eyetech might need a second manufacturing run if they market it in the right places. Also, the integrated board would be great for low-end servers if the PCI/AGP slots were not installed, but there were two ethernet ports and IDE-RAID on board instead, and the board was shrunk so two could fit in a 1U case. |
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