It's Time For DDR: 3 New 760 Athlon Mobos

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AMD760

In comparison with the other chipsets for Duron and Athlon processors, the AMD760 has some advantages besides its excellent performance. Along with VIA's Apollo KT266, it is the only chipset that is able to address 2 GB RAM. However, the VIA chipset only supports two DIMM slots, while the AMD760 can take up to four DDR-DIMMs. As far as I know, 1 GB DDR modules are not yet available, leaving two 512 MB DIMMs the only practicable maximum memory configuration. In addition, there is also a version for dual processor systems available (AMD 762) , making Athlon-based computers suitable for servers and workstations now.

It is well known that AMD does not want to become a big player in the chipset business. Yet they want to be some kind of technology provider. AMD focused on providing a perfectly reliable and fast performing reference to show the industry what a good chipset for their processors should look like.

You might want to take a look at out first motherboard review that dealt with AMD760 motherboards: Athlon Boosters - Three AMD 760 Boards for DDR SDRAM . In this article, we took a look at the Asus A7M266, Biostar M7MIA and Gigabyte GA-7DX.

As this review was not done with any of our reference graphics cards but with a Quadro model, the graphics benchmarks cannot be compared to the results of this particular review. That's why I decided not to include those results.