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SiS672FX - Budget for Budget's Sake

By Zachary Chan - 5 Aug 2007

SiS672FX Reference Board

SiS672FX Reference Board

Reference motherboard from SiS based on the new SiS672FX chipset. Bear in mind that this is NOT a retail sample or even a retail reference design. This is purely an engineering PCB for testing the chipset.

The SiS672FX chipset is so cool, it works without any cooling.

Close up of the SiS968 Southbridge.

The SiS196 ASIC seen here is actually the Gigabyte PHY chip.

Only two DIMM slots are supported by the SiS672FX for a maximum memory configuration of 4GB single-channel DDR2.

The SiS672FX supports one PCIe x16 slot (Northbridge) and two PCIe x1 slots (Southbridge). The middle slot on the board looks like an AMR slot, but remember that this is not a retail reference board, you don't have to worry about the weird looking slots and contacts seen here.

Only two SATA 3.0Gbps ports are supported by the chipset.

Though the rest of the board looks simple, the PWM components around the CPU socket uses solid capacitors and what looks like digital MOSFETs.

No, the board does not have 14-channel surround audio capabilities.

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