VIA's K8T800 Pro Reviews

Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
edited May 2004 in Science & Tech
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

Comments

  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited May 2004
    I think a HT1000 should be coupled with 250mhz DDR500. Triying to squeeze 8.0GBs of CPU bandwidth (HT1000) through 6.4GBs of memory bandwidth (DC-DDR400) is pointless.

    It bodes well for OCing though. Couple a S939 system with Twin PC4000 sticks, set it to 250mhz FSB and you should see some serious system performance
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