Great News! 775i915P-SATA2 / 775i915PL-SATA2 supports ATi CrossFire™ Technology!

     

775i915P-SATA2

775i915PL-SATA2

Now, powering up your graphics performance by utilizing the ATi CrossFire™ Technology on ASRock 915P and 915PL motherboards! By simply installing a Radeon CrossFire™ Edition graphics card and a compatible standard Radeon (CrossFire™ Ready) graphics card from the same series, you may start enjoy the thrill gaming experience brought to you by CrossFire™!

Nov10, 2005, Taipei

Here are 775i915P-SATA2 brief specifications:

• Support ATi CrossFire™
• LGA775 for Intel^® Pentium 4 / Celeron D processor
• Intel^® 915P chipset
• Supports FSB 800/533 MHz processor, EM64T CPU and H-T Technology
• Supports Dual Channel DDRII533 x 4 DIMMs and Dual Channel DDR400 x 2 DIMMs
• Hybrid Booster - Safe Overclocking Technology
• PCI Express x 16 slot
• PCI Express x 1 slot
• Additional ASRock A.G.I. Express slots to adopt 2^nd PCI Express x16 VGA card, and other PCI Express x4, x2, x1 interface cards
• Surround Display: Up to 4 monitors display capability
• 4 ports of SerialATA 1.5Gb/s, 1 ATA100 IDE ports
• PCI Express SATA2 controller on board, making the best use of advanced SATA2 HDD
• 1 x Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s connector by JMicron JMB 360 (PCIE x 1 interface), supports "Hot Plug" function
• 7.1 channel Audio, 10/100 Ethernet LAN
• ASRock 8CH I/O: 8 channel audio jack and 4 ready-to-use USB2.0 ports

Here are 775i915PL-SATA2 brief specifications:

• Support ATi CrossFire™
• LGA775 for Intel^® Pentium 4 / Celeron D processor
• Intel^® 915PL chipset
• Supports FSB 800/533 MHz processor, EM64T CPU and H-T Technology
• Supports Dual Channel DDR400 memory
• Hybrid Booster - Safe Overclocking Technology
• PCI Express x 16 slot
• AGI Expess slot (Default setting as PCI Express x1 and can be adjusted to PCI Express x 4 as well)
• PCI Express x1 slot for other hi-speed peripheral cards
• Surround Display: Up to 4 monitors display capability
• PCI Express SATA2 controller on board, making the best use of advanced SATA2 HDD
• 4 ports of SerialATA 1.5Gb/s, and 1 port of IDE
• 1 x Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s connector by JMicron JMB 360 (PCIE x 1 interface)
• 7.1 channel Audio, 10/100 Ethernet LAN
• ASRock 8CH I/O: 8 channel audio jack and 4 ready-to-use USB2.0 ports

CrossFire Concept

CrossFire™ technology offers the most advantageous means available of combining multiple high performances Graphics Processing Units (GPU) in a single PC. Combining a range of different operating modes with intelligent software design and an innovative interconnect mechanism, CrossFire™ enables the highest possible level of performance and image quality in any 3D application. Currently CrossFire™ feature is only supported with Windows^® XP with Service Pack 2; it may be supported with other OS in the future.

What graphics cards work with CrossFire™?

CrossFire™ requires a Radeon CrossFire™ Edition graphics card and a compatible standard Radeon (CrossFire™ Ready) graphics card from the same series. The Radeon X850 CrossFire™ Edition card can be paired with any PCI Express Radeon X850 graphics card (Radeon X850 PRO, Radeon X850 XT or Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition) from ATI^® or any of its partners including cards previously sold.

Note:

1. If a customer incorrectly configures their system, they will not see the performance benefits of CrossFire™. All three CrossFire™ components, a CrossFire™ Ready graphics card, a CrossFire™ Ready motherboard and a CrossFire™ Edition co-processor graphics card, must be installed correctly to benefit from the CrossFire™ multi-GPU platform.
2. If you pair a 12-pipe CrossFire™ Edition card with a 16-pipe card, both cards will operate as 12-pipe cards while in CrossFire™ mode.

For detailed information about CrossFire™ Installation, please refer to CrossFire™ Operation Guide on ASRock website.

How to update your BIOS version to support CrossFire™ Technology on 775i915P-SATA2 / 775i915PL-SATA2?

For 775i915P-SATA2, you don't have to do anything to support CrossFire™, because the product is ready for CrossFire™ when it is shipped. As for 775i915PL-SATA2, the steps are easy. All you have to do is to update the BIOS to P1.20 version or above through ASRock's BIOS update website.

CrossFire™ Technology Performance Comparison Table

We ran some tests on platforms that come with and without CrossFire™ technology and found there's a great discrepancy between them. The performance result of 3Dmark'03/ 3Dmark'05 of systems that have enabled CrossFire™ technology are so much higher than those systems that are not.

CrossFire™ Performance Test on 775i915P-SATA2:

CrossFire™ Performance Test on 775i915PL-SATA2: