(For those of you who dont know yet, RD580 is ATi's dual PCIe X16 solution, meant to compete against NVIDIA's NForce 4 SLi X16)
This is how the box looks like.
The official name for ATi RD580 will be known as ATi Xpress 3200, as stated on the packaging box on the A8R32-MVP
This is how the board looks like.
Twin PCIe X16 (electrically X16 as well!) slots for Crossfire operation.
These are the I/O connectors onboard the A8R32-MVP
The onboard Audio, Realtek ALC882.
to compliment for 2 more additional SATA (1x eSATA, 1x internal), ASUS included this Silicon Si3132CNU SATA 3GB/s controller
the bare core of the northbridge, the ATi RD580 chip. Suprisingly, the die is extremely small!
The southbridge on the board. ASUS decides to use the faster ULu M1575 southbridge instead of ATi's bugged SB400/SB450.
As usual, Soundless mosfet coolers on the mosfets near the CPU area.
**This board also comes with 2x Gigabit Marvell LAN controllers, 1 that runs off the PCI bus, and the other that runs of PCIe bus.
That's all for now folks. We'll have a complete performance review of this in a short while. =)
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