Via - Kt600 ?

MrBillMrBill Missouri Member
edited June 2003 in Hardware
This may be old news, but I just saw it. VIA - KT600.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/apollo/kt600_bn.jsp
Combining support for the new generation of AMD Athlon™ XP processors with 400MHz FSB with its advanced FastStream64™ Memory Controller Technology, as well as VIA Vinyl™ Six-TRAC Audio, and the industry-first integrated Serial ATA/RAID controller on the VIA VT8237 South Bridge, the VIA Apollo KT600 provides the highest performance and most feature-rich platform for the complete spectrum of gaming, home productivity and entertainment, and business applications.

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  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited June 2003
    Via has been posting benchmarks of a 512MB equiped KT600 mobo beating (barely) a NF2 Dual cahnnel motherboard.

    We'll all see. However unless VIA implements a locked PCI/AGP bus there's no reason to buy one.

    Except maybe for the fact that no NF2 mobos have HPT raid controllers on them.

    I wonder why (not)??
  • ShivianShivian Australia
    edited June 2003
    By locked you mean fixed to a certain frequency do you?
  • CCWCCW Suffolk, UK
    edited June 2003
    yes, 33 pci and 66 agp

    so then you dont egt rpoblems with pci stuff at high FSBs or hdd corruption

    Craig
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited June 2003
    here you go Mr Bill...

    VIA Announces Volume KT600 Shipments (2003-06-18)
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited June 2003
    I wonder if they'll have the nForce 3 boards be able to run the Athlon 64 chips.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited June 2003
    Opteron: 940pins (No hole in middle)
    Athlon 64: 754Pins (hole in middle)

    Probable the NF3 supports both CPU Types. It just a matter of which socket the mobo manufacturer decides to make.

    One caveat though, the Opteron has 128bit (Dual Channel) access to memory while the Athlon64 is Single channel or 64bit access.

    Clock for clock, cache for cache, the Opteron will outperform the A64
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited June 2003
    The Athlon 64 is to start with single channel memory access and then after a while get dual channel memory access
  • CCWCCW Suffolk, UK
    edited June 2003
    KT600 is too little too late, everyones preparing of rA64 now. All VIA can do now is to produce a real good A64 boarfd in the hopes of outrunning nVidia.

    Craig
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited June 2003
    Silly question, but couldnt an A64 fit in an Opteron socket? (but not visa versa).

    NS
  • CCWCCW Suffolk, UK
    edited June 2003
    Originally posted by NightShade737
    Silly question, but couldnt an A64 fit in an Opteron socket? (but not visa versa).

    NS

    No, pins are totally different.

    Craig
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited June 2003
    OH well, worth asking as I thought the pinout may have been the same, just with a lot missing in the middle for the 64, nevermind.

    NS
  • CCWCCW Suffolk, UK
    edited June 2003
    If you read the thread, this question is answered further up ;)
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited June 2003
    I read it, and it makes it out to seem that they have the same pinout but the 64 doesnt have any pins in the middle whereas the OP does, so, think about it, as it isnt directly answered, that the 64 could possibly fit in an opteron socket.

    NS
  • dydxdydx Cymru, UK
    edited June 2003
    Will the A64 support SMP?


    mD
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited June 2003
    Originally posted by dydx
    Will the A64 support SMP?


    mD

    No, Only Opteron Series 2 or higher (2xx, 4xx, 8xx) support multiprocessing, with the 1st number (2, 4, or 8) telling what MP support the particular Opteron has.
  • dydxdydx Cymru, UK
    edited June 2003
    Cheers Omega, these PR ratings confuse the hell out of me.


    mD
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