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With all of the hullabaloo in recent times over NVIDIA's nForce 4 chipsets, it is easy to forget that there is more to the world of chipset logic than the NVIDIA camp. There is of course Intel, who is renowned for making very stable and reliable (although not usually tweaker-friendly) chipsets, as well as the regular VIA and SiS camps with their respective products. There is a well-known manufacturer out there who has also recently dove back into the chipset business, though they are well-known for other reasons.

ATI Technologies, known for their Radeon series of graphics cards, is now attempting to take after NVIDIA by spearheading a number of chipset market niches with the release of their PCI-Express-based Radeon XPRESS 200 series chipsets last year, taking advantage of a bit of a slump in enthusiast/review-oriented VIA/SiS chipset presence. The first of the chipsets came in the form of Athlon 64/Opteron/Sempron-targeted variants, and were dubbed Radeon XPRESS 200 and 200P. The 200 in this case came with an integrated RV370 graphics core (X600/X300 technology), while the 200P was a straight-up chipset.

In March of this year, ATI kicked off the launch of their Intel Radeon XPRESS 200 parts, following the same naming scheme as the AMD counterparts. Today's review is a bit of a dual-review, as we have received a retail box from ASUS containing their Radeon XPRESS 200-based P5RD1-V motherboard. We will be discussing the features of the Radeon XPRESS a bit out of the context of the specific board, and then we will follow through with a review of the actual board.