With the first SiS630 boards showing up, it might be worthwhile to take another look at Timna'a competition:
With concurrent dual video out, the system will support realtime video editing and becomes the new "home movie" center (Apple is promoting this computer use lately).
The video supports AGP4x 1920x1200 @80MHZ NI and up to 128 meg dedicate video ram or 64meg of shared memory video ram, and SiS has always allowed for the disabling of on-board video.
Integrated 10/100 networking is being promoted for home networking use (businesses won't mind either)
Integrated Hardware DVD decoding.
Integrated 56K modem, cable modem, DSL
Integrated high end 3D sound
Virtual Channel PC133, PC133, VC PC100, PC100 memory support
All of the usual PC 99 ports: Dual Channel Ultra DMA 33/66 IDE, mouse, keyboard, 5 USB ports.
It sells for $35 supporting PIII/Celeron and $29 supporting K6-X - even with all those pins. A version for Athlon is next.
Dan
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Integrated 128-bit 2D/3D Graphics Accelerator
- Advanced HW Acceleration for DVD Playback Including MC, IDCT
- Ultra-AGPTM Architecture
- Fully DirectX 6 Compliant Graphics Engine
- UMA Architecture with 2/4/8/16/32/64 System Memory Sharable as Display Memory
- Resolution Up to 1920x1200 256/32K/64K/16M Color @80Hz NI
- Optional Extended Graphics Memory(EGM) On-board for 128-bit Memory Accessing
- Support VESA DDC1 ,DDC2B & DDC 3.0
- Driver Support for OS/2(R), Windows(R) 95/98,Windows NT(R) 4.0, Windows(R) 2000
- Support SiS301 Video Bridge Interface for Dual Display
- NTSC/PAL TV or
- Secondary CRT monitor or
- TFT Digital LCD Monitor
Integrated 3D Positional Audio Controller
- 64-voice Polyphony Wavetable Synthesizer
- DirectSound 3D Accelerator for IID, IAD and Doppler Effects
- Full-duplex, Independent Sample Rate Converter for Audio Recording and Playback
- Supports 2/4/6 Speakers w/ External AC'97 Codecs
- AC'97 V2.1 Interface for External Audio Codec
- SoundBlaster Pro/16 compliant - Driver Support for Windows(R) 95/98, NT(R) 4.0, Windows(R) 2000,
Integrated Ethernet and 1Mbps Home PNA Controller
- IEEE802.3, 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX Standards
- Supports On-Now, Wake-On-LAN, PCI Power Management 1.0a
- Driver Support for Windows(R) 95/98, NT(R) 4.0, Windows(R) 2000, OS/2, Netware, ODI, SCO Unix, Netware, Linux
- BIOS Boot-up for Windows NT,Novell, OS/2
Modem
- AC'97 AMR/MDC HSP Modem Support
Integrated PC133 SDRAM Controller
- 3 DIMMs up to 1.5GB of System Memory
- Virtual Channel Memory (VCM) Support
- Synchronous or Asynchronous Host/SDRAM Bus Frequency
- BIOS Support for Suspend-To-RAM(STR) Dual USB OpenHCI Host Controllers
- Support 5 USB Ports
Power Management
- ACPI 1.0, APM 1.2 Compliant
- Wake-up Events Include Power Button, Hot-Key, Keyboard Password, Modem Ring, Ethernet, Home PNA, RTC Alarm
- System Sleeping States S1,S2, S3,S4, S5
Dual Ultra 33/66 IDE Controller
4 PCI Master
LPC 1.0 Interface
Integrated RTC w/ Y2K Support
Integrated Keyboard/PS2 Mouse Controller
I2C/SMbus Interface
Meet PC'99 Requirement
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