PCI Express has been the expected replacement of the AGP standard for some time now. Intel has already implemented it for their CPUs and we know that its coming for the AMD platform as well from the likes of nVidia, VIA and ATI. While nVidia and VIA have been supporting the AMD camp for a while, this is the first time we see ATI enter this market.

In our opinion, its much harder to compete in the chipset market for the Intel platform as Intel itself dominates this market with their excellent chipsets. However, AMD doesn’t push their own chipsets and with the recent news of AMD outselling Intel CPUs in the retail segment, it makes a lot more sense to design chipsets for the AMD platform. That is exactly what ATI did by releasing two chipsets for the Athlon64- the Radeon Xpress 200 and the Radeon Xpress 200P. The difference between the two is that the Radeon Xpress 200 has integrated graphics while the 200P doesn’t. We received the Radeon Xpress 200P from ATI and its time find out what we think about it.