[News] Marvell announces Discovery III Northbridge | ANN.lu |
Posted on 30-Sep-2003 15:01 GMT by takemehomegrandma | 94 comments View flat View list |
Marvell today announced the Discovery III northbridge. It features a 200MHz PowerPC CPU interface, 200MHz DDR SDRAM Interface (400Mbps data rate), Dual CPU SMP Support (MPX and 60x modes), PCI-X, Gigabit ethernet and is software compatible with other Discovery northbridges.
Source: morphos-news.de
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Marvell announces Discovery III Northbridge : Comment 16 of 94 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Anonymous on 30-Sep-2003 15:08 GMT | In reply to Comment 15 (Jan de Vries): > Great good spec, not much better then the the previous marvell tho.
You have seen every aspect of the specs? I think that there might be some considerable optimazations and improvements inside the core that affects the performance.
> But still no AGP implementation, so a PCI-X to AGP hack is still
> necessary.....
No "hack" is necessary, this is a design issue when makeing a motherboard. The North Bridge offers some channels of different performance, sort of an unformed clay, and then the designer can form that clay into any shape he/she wants.
But this is of course nothing new, and this has not been of any concern to the end users on any platform. The only thing the end users are interested in is what features and what slots and connectors and what performance the motherboard has. There is no problem at all in makeing a motherboard with fast AGP when you have a good clay like this! :) |
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