Thread: ECS KA3 MVP Extreme at ATI Xpress 3200 CrossFire

As our readers will recall, in March 2006, the company introduced a new chipset ATI Xpress 3200 CrossFire ™, which received very good reviews. Our tests also confirmed the high potential of this chipset. But all the positive characteristics covered only the northern bridge, which supported CrossFire ™ technology. But south bridge (SB450 or ULi M1573/M1575) does not deserve praise, because at that time on the technical characteristics it assigned its competitors. However, in the review, we have concluded that the main struggle for AMD systems promoted to the market after the release of the new southern bridge SB600. And that moment arrived. Встречаем motherboard ECS KA3 MVP Extreme at ATI Xpress 3200 chipset CrossFire ™ with the southern bridge SB600.

SB600 South Bridge
So, ATI SB600 south bridge gained support standard Serial ATA II, he supported the relevant port and 4 combines hard drives in a RAID Level 0 array, 1.5 and 0 +1. Technologies are also supported NCQ (Native Command Queuing) and the AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface). In addition, SB600 supports Parallel ATA. The truth is the number of channels is reduced to 1, which allows only two respective connecting device.

In addition, SB600 chip supports 10 USB 2.0 ports, as well as an embedded sound High Defenition Audio and Gigabit Ethernet Controller. Finally, we note that the link with the northern bridge ATI RD580 (Xpress 3200 CrossFire ™) is carried out by A-Link interface with 2-capacity 2 Gb / s (1 GB / s in each direction).