Alternative Athlon Chipsets: Strong Competition Out There
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Chipset
VIA Apollo KT266A
VIA Apollo KT266
AMD 760
SiS 735
ALi Magik 1
NVIDIA nForce 220
NVIDIA nForce 420
Introduction
September 2001
April 2001
November 2000
May 2001
December 2001
October 2001 (?)
October 2001 (?)
CPU-Platform
Socket 462
Supported Prozessors
AMD Athlon/Duron
SMP-Support
n/a
Chipset North Bridge
VIA VT8366A
VIA VT8366
AMD 761
SiS 735
ALi M1647
nForce220 IGP
nForce420 IGP
Chipset South Bridge
VIA VT8233
VIA VT8233
AMD 765
-
ALi M1535D+
nForce220 MCP
nForce420 MCP
Official FSB Support
100 (200 DDR)/133 (266 DDR) MHz
Official Memory Clock Support
100 (200 DDR)/133 (266 DDR) MHz
Number of Memory Channels
1
2
Max. Memory Bandwidth
2133 MB/s
4266 MB/s
Asynchronuous Memory Timing
yes
Supported DIMM-Slots
4
4
4
3
4
3
3
Max. Memory Support
4096 MB
4096 MB
2048 MB
1536 MB
1024 MB
1536 MB
1536 MB
SDRAM-Support
yes
DDR-SDRAM-Support
yes
VC-SDRAM-Support
no
no
no
no
no
?
?
RDRAM-Support
no
Ultra-DMA/33/66/100 IDE
yes/yes/yes
Number of USB-Slots
6
6
4
6
6
6
6
Max. Number of PCI-Slots
6
Integrated Graphics
no
yes
yes
Integrated 5.1 Sound
no
yes
yes
Integrated Ethernet
yes, optional
yes, optional
no
yes
no
yes
yes
AGP 1x / 2x / 4x
yes/yes/yes
ACPI-Features
yes
This table includes all available chipsets and the two nVIDIA nForce chipsets that are to come within the next few months.
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