AMD’s new 7 series of chipsets is just around the corner and it is expected to bring a new level of performance to the K8 architecture, but most of all full support and (hopefully) some interesting features for the coming AM2+/K10 processors. The higher end of this series will contain the RD780, RD790 and RX780 chipsets and they will all have their individual target buyers. Our Chilean friends at ChileHardware have stumbled upon something very interesting feature when investigating the BIOS of these new chipsets; the AMD AutoXpress feature(s).
This feature will allow for acceleration of the performance of K10 processors, automatic overclocking of the PCIe bus when using graphics cards based on R580+ or newer (such as the R6XX), accelerating data transfers in between graphics card when running CrossFire, and even allow the HyperTransport bus to be double-pumped when using a HT 1.0 processor, through a feature called XpressRoute. [Editor’s note: Not all K10 processors are HT 3.0]
There will also be a MemBoost feature that can be used with high-end memory (DDR2-800 and up) for lower latencies when using a K8 processor.
Forum user metro has published a more thorough explanation in the forum, and the original post (in Spanish) can be found at ChileHardware.
