The Athlon64 Radeon Xpress: ATi's Latest Stab as a Chipset Maker

ATi Radeon Xpress 200 Reference Motherboard

ATi specifically chose this path, since integrating a powerful Gigabit network controller capable of matching Nvidia's solution would noticeably increase costs. In addition, ATi touts the scalability aspects of its chipset, which means that motherboard makers can decide whether they want to integrate a low-cost network solution or a more sophisticated one. Broadcom, Marvell and Realtek will certainly be happy to help out.

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.