Tom’s Hardware puts the new VIA K8T800 Pro Opteron/Athlon64 chipset under the microscope
Historically, VIA’s chipsets have offered good performance with generally top rate features. Only their overclocking potential was held back by the lack of an AGP / PCI clock lock.
The Pro version now solves this problem by allowing the AGP bus to be set to 66 MHz and the PCI bus to 33 MHz. In addition, VIA has bumped up the speed of the HyperTransport bus, which connects the Northbridge and Southbridge, to 1 GHz compared to 800 MHz of the non-Pro version.
Still waiting for Socket 939….
Source: Tom
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