VIA Announces K8T890, First PCI Express Chipset for the Athlon Processor
Subject: Chipsets | September 24, 2004 - 06:32 AM | Ryan Shrout
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Be sure to check out my preview of this chipset as well!
VIA Announces K8T890, World's First PCI Express Chipset for the AMD Athlon™ Processor
VIA K8T890 Series chipsets open up the AMD64 processor platform to PCI Express, providing the bandwidth needed for today's most demanding applications and the headroom needed for future growth
Taipei, Taiwan, 24 September 2004, - VIA Tech
K8T890 Technology
VIA is the first out the block to bring PCI Express to the AMD platform. But there are still some questions on performance and SLI support.
Intel 925X Chipset
Subject: Chipsets | July 27, 2004 - 06:01 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Bit-tech.net lays out a nice informative review on the current Intel 925X chipset.
Source: bit-tech
AMD Unveils Evolutionary Design for Latest AMD-8000 Chipsets
Subject: Chipsets | June 14, 2004 - 03:37 PM | Joe White
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SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- June 14, 2004 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today unveiled details of the latest addition to the AMD-8000™ series of chipsets, the AMD-8132™ HyperTransport™ PCI-X® 2.0 tunnel.
AMD, others unveil new wares at Computex
Subject: Chipsets | June 1, 2004 - 07:01 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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There will be a new provider for AMD 64 platforms. Broadcom recently bought Serverworks, who provided chipsets for Intel based servers, only. Under Broadcom they will develop chipsets to handle the new AMD chips, thus continuing Broadcom's sordid history with Intel.
AMD said it will cooperate with
Socket 754 Roundup: Comparing Generation 2
Subject: Chipsets | May 28, 2004 - 09:57 PM | Ron Goldin
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The future of AMD Processors revolving around the upcoming 939-pin versions of the Athlon64 will undoubtedly raise the bar in performance for AMD. Give it a little bit more time before we start to see just how far the bar is raised, with its pending release. This insight to the latest chipsets for the current and soon to be released versions of AMD processors, is what Anandtech's review is all about.
While all the boards in today's test are Socket 754, please keep in mind that both nF3-250 and K8T800 Pro
NVIDIA's nForce2 Ultra 400Gb Chipset
Subject: Chipsets | May 12, 2004 - 05:43 AM | Ron Goldin
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Athlon XP is not a EOL unit quite yet, not with VIA and nVidia still kicking new life into it with their latest chipsets. nVidia being the more recent as you can see in Ryan's review of their nForce2 Ultra 400Gb chipset. The Tech Report's review of this chipset came to many of the same conclusions, it's no longer the performance being the deciding factor of chipset purchases but in fact the feature set, which is something
NVIDIA Intros the Ultra 400 Gb chipset for the Athlon XP Market
Subject: Chipsets | May 10, 2004 - 09:26 AM | Ryan Shrout
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Here's the full PR from NVIDIA.
NVIDIA BRINGS NEW NETWORKING, SECURITY, AND STORAGE SOLUTIONS TO AMD ATHLON XP MARKET
Company's Award-Winning Native Gigabit Ethernet Controller and Firewall Security Solution for AMD Athlon 64 Platforms Now Available in NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400Gb MCP
SANTA CLARA, CA—MAY 10, 2004— Leveraging the award-winning innovative networking, storage, and security technologies unveiled in the Company's NVIDIA nForce™3 250Gb media and communications processor (MCP) for AMD Athlon™ 64 processor-
Introduction
NVIDIA today has released a new chipset for the Athlon XP processor that offers the same great south bridge features that the nForce3 250 Gb chipset has, and we're here to show it all to you today.
VIA's New K8T800Pro Previews
Subject: Chipsets | May 7, 2004 - 08:09 AM | Ron Goldin
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Surprisingly, there seems to be very few previews of this chipset on the web. Even today, the day after it was released publicly. I'm not sure why that is. I don't recall a time that a new chipset release was so quiet as such as this one. I think the one thing that may be holding things back is the fact this new chipset adds a lot of new features, but not the giant performance gains the market and enthusiasts want. [H]ard|OCP has posted about some of the impending prowess of the overclocking abilities of
