OCWorkbench has posted a review on the ALi M1687 Athlon 64 K8 Reference Mainboard

The Athlon 64 (Socket 754) will be officially announced on 23rd September 2003. ALi which has been quiet for the past 1 year is back in the market. ALi/ULi offers a long ready solution for the K8 and it is the M1687 + M1563.

M1687 is ALi’s new generation North bridge that offers a high-performance and cost-effective solution for PC systems. It supports the AMD K8 Processors.

With AGP 1x/2x/4x/8x support, M1687 provides system designers with enough headroom to interface with different graphics solutions to fulfill various market requirements. The M1687 introduces HyperTransport bus, a next generation link bus that can reach up to 6.4GB/sec to K8 CPU side and up to 1.6GB/sec to our south bridge side in bandwidth.

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