Daily Tech has managed to get there hands on information and pictures of AMD's Upcoming Quad Core Platform. For more pictures click on source at the bottom of the article.
"ASUS L1N64-SLI WS to be the first 4x4 motherboard
DailyTech has
obtained a couple of images of an upcoming motherboard for AMD’s 4x4
enthusiast platform. The motherboard is an ASUS L1N64-SLI WS powered
by two NVIDIA nForce 680a MCPs. Two socket-1207 processors are
supported with four memory slots—two slots per processor. With two
nForce 680a MCPs the ASUS L1N64-SLI WS features 12 SATA 3.0 Gbps ports
and one PATA for storage connectivity. There’s also an additional
e.SATA port on the back I/O as well.
As far as PCI Exress goes
the L1N64-SLI WS features a grand total of four PCI Express x16 slots
for plenty of SLI and SLI physics processing power. Due to space
limitations the L1N64-SLI WS only has one PCI and PCIe x1 slots.
Networking features of the ASUS L1N64-SLI WS include dual Gigabit Ethernet ports. The onboard Gigabit Ethernet features NVIDIA’s FirstPacket, DualNet, Teaming and TCP/IP offload technologies.
Audio is powered by a high definition audio codec with optical and
coaxial S/PDIF outputs. It is unknown which codec ASUS has equipped the
L1N64-SLI WS with, though it could be Analog Devices or Realtek. The board is not legacy free and still has PS/2 and parallel ports.
Due
to the complex design of AMD’s 4x4 platform, the ASUS L1N64-SLI WS uses
an eATX form factor which will not fit in smaller cases. Since dual
processors require a little extra power, ASUS has equipped the
L1N64-SLI WS with an 8-pin EPS12v and Molex power connectors" (DailyTech).
Source: DailyTech.com
Posted
Nov 20 2006, 07:41 PM
by
Blake Niemyjski