After quite some time after the takeover company ATI AMD, the latter introduced a new series of integrated chipsets 690G / V with integrated graphical kernel Radeon X1250/X1200. This graphical kernel is slightly modified kernel Radeon Xpress 1150. This implies the existence of four pixel conveyors and DirectX 9.0 support. With regard to support for vertex shaders, they are still performed at the software level. But increased frequency kernel to 375-400 MHz, which will provide a small increase in productivity in 3D applications.

South Bridge chipsets from both the same: ATI SB600. Accordingly, the Boards through 690G / V will support four channels SerialATA II (RAID 0, 1, 0 +1), a channel ParallelATA, 10 USB 2.0 ports and built-sound High Definition Audio. However, the characteristics of this obsolete chip well known to us. Therefore, a closer look at Northbridge AMD RS690 (code).

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This chip supports 24 lines for PCI Express, 16 of which are allocated to graphic slot, four lines are devoted to the link with the southern bridge and the remaining four - to the needs of developers motherboards (ie slots PCI Express, Gigabit connectivity, etc.). Especially note that chipset supports the use of embedded graphical kernel, as well as external video card. This means the ability to connect to one of four monitors system. In addition, the chipset has an integrated TV-Out (by the way, he installed on both test fee). I have a mixed information: 690G chipset / V supports (at the hardware level) HDCP technology, which is licensed otlezhivaet playback of digital content.

Regarding the differences between the northern and 690V bridges 690G, let's remark that the 690G (elder, more expensive version) supports two independent display controller and allows you to check the following outputs: DVI / HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface), as well as the standard VGA. The younger version supports only VGA output.