Chaintech S1689 Mobo

[wintie]

Hi, does anyone have performance details on the Chaintech S1689 Socket 939 Mobo?
Is it a good buy if you don't want to PCI Express yet?
What are the overclocking capabilities with a Athlon 64 3200+ fitted?
Very little stats available on this board.

[bluetooth]

Not much info available yet,.

[uddarts]

The M1689 is ULi’s new generation super single chipset that offers a high-performance, the highest integration and cost effective solution for AMD Hammer microprocessor PC systems.The M1689 integrates AGP8X controller, AC-Link Host Controller, 2-channel dedicated Ultra-66/100/133 IDE Master controller,

USB 2.0/1.1 Host controllers with 8 ports in total, IO APIC controller, 1/10/100 Mb/s Fast Ethernet, SATA, and HyperTransportTM Technology Link interface. Additional features include Host Signal Processing (HSP) software modem solution, ACPI support, green function, and Real Time Clock.

By incorporating USB 2.0 host controller with the data transfer rate up to 480 Mb/s, the M1689 provides the most advanced connectivity for higher performance USB devices. 8 USB ports are supported with 1 USB 2.0 EHCI (Enhanced Host Controller Interface) controller and 3 USB 1.1 OHCI controllers.

The built-in Audio solution in the M1689 is an advanced PCI HSP audio controller with Scatter-gathering DMA fully supported. The M1689 Audio is compliant with standard AC97 CODEC and supports 6 audio playback channels for PCM_out L/R, Surr L/R, Center and LFE, dual PCM inputs and dual microphone inputs.

The 100BASE-TX/10Base-T Fast Ethernet MAC is fully compliant with PCI Spec. 2.3 and IEEE802.3u. The MAC provides a direct interface to the PCI local bus and direct connection to the PHY/transceiver via MII interface. As a controller, it is bus master capable. The MAC also supports auto-negotiation function that enables it to detect speed and duplex automatically.

The MAC provides the Power Management capability that is compliant with the Network Device Class Power Management Specifications Rev 1.1, ACPI Specifications Rev 2.0, and the PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specifications 1.1. In addition, it can support remote Wake-up capability to power up a remote sleeping station on the network.

Originally Posted by UncleBob

OK, it uses the ULi M1689 chipset. (I believe they bought out ALi) Here is a brief introduction from our friends at OCWorkbench. They had a reference board from Ummmmm another manufacturer!

More information on the chipset is here: http://www.amdboard.com/hn08310402.html

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[bluetooth]

This kind of information you can find it at uli.com.tw

[chris_lt]

What are the overclocking capabilities with a Athlon 64 3200+ fitted?
Very little stats available on this board.

for you can't lock pci/agp frequency in the bios,

Uli M1689 not supported the function,

so you can only OC to 300Mhz

[bluetooth]

you pay only a fraction for equal performance but not for overclockability. It is up to individual's needs.

[Britgeezer]

So - with a little more time lapsed has anyone used this MB is it worth paying more for an Nforce 3 chipset?

[Gortok]

Only if you plan on OCing.

[onlyaglimpse]

so the Chaintech S1689 has no overclocking abilities? Just curious.

[bluetooth]

Not much.