Intel has been known for producing its own motherboards for its processors for quite some time. However, these have always featured the processor giant's own chipsets. For the first time in recent memory, Intel has introduced a motherboard based on a third party's core logic. The Desktop Board D101GGC uses ATI's Radeon XPRESS 200 chipset and is targeted for mainstream customers.
The Desktop Board D101GGC is a fairly feature-packed motherboard, offering 4x SATA 150 ports, support for 2GB RAM, integrated DX9 capable Radeon graphics, a free x16 PCI Express slot for graphics expansion, and support for Intel Pentium 4 and Celeron D processors.
The emergence of boards such as this is a result of Intel's desire to shift its manufacturing to higher-end chipsets only, which it announced in August. However, Intel still needs boards available to sell its lower end processors, which could prompt more third party support in the future.
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The Desktop Board D101GGC is a fairly feature-packed motherboard, offering 4x SATA 150 ports, support for 2GB RAM, integrated DX9 capable Radeon graphics, a free x16 PCI Express slot for graphics expansion, and support for Intel Pentium 4 and Celeron D processors.
The emergence of boards such as this is a result of Intel's desire to shift its manufacturing to higher-end chipsets only, which it announced in August. However, Intel still needs boards available to sell its lower end processors, which could prompt more third party support in the future.
View: Full Article @ X-bit labs
Known Issues:
Some of the settings for both D3D & OGL will not be synchronized between ATT and the normal ATI CP, you must only use one of them to make changes, the best option is to use ATT since the ATI CP does not support changes to AI and in order to use the advanced D3D/OGL features. Changes made in ATT will work on games and such but the changes will not be reflected in the normal ATI CP since ATI stores the registry values that the CP reads separate from the actual values in the registry.
Note: Since these drivers include a non-standard version of ATT, I would recommend that if you have any previous version of ATT installed, please uninstall it before installing these drivers, not doing so may cause unknown problems.
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