A Real Nail-Biter: Four Boards With ALi Magik 1

Under Competitive Pressure: ALi Magik 1, Continued

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ChipsatzALi Magik 1VIA Apollo KT133AVIA Apollo KT266AMD 760
IntroductionFebruary 2001January 2001April 2001February 2001
Processor PlattformSocket 462Socket 462Socket 462Socket 462
Supported CPUAMD Athlon/DuronAMD Athlon/DuronAMD Athlon/DuronAMD Athlon/Duron
Multiprocessor Supportnononono
Chipset NorthbridgeALi M1647VIA VT8363AVIA VT8366AMD 761
Chipset SouthbridgeALi M1535D+VIA VT82C686BVIA VT8233AMD 765
Front Side Bus Clock100/133 MHz100/133 MHz100/133 MHz100/133 MHz
Memory Clock100/133 MHz100/133 MHz100/133 MHz100/133 MHz
Asynchronous Memory Clockyesyesyesyes
33 MHz PCI with 133 MHz FSByesyesyesyes
FSB-Overclocking *up to 150 MHzup to 180 MHzup to 166 MHzup to 150 MHz
max. # DIMM-Slots4444
max. Memory1024 MB1536 MB2048 MB2048 MB
SDRAM-Supportyesyesyesno
DDR-SDRAM-Supportyesnoyesyes
VC-SDRAM-Supportnoyesnono
RIMM-Support (Rambus)nononono
Ultra-DMA/33/66/100yes/yes/yesyes/yes/yesyes/yes/yesyes/yes/yes
Max. # USB4444
Max. # PCI Slots6666
Integrated Graphicsnononono
AGP 1x / 2x / 4xyes/yes/yesyes/yes/yesyes/yes/yesyes/yes/yes
ACPI-Featuresyesyesyesyes

* depending on clock generator

DDR-Chipsets for Socket 462 Compared: The ALi Magik 1, the AMD 760 and the VIA Apollo KT266 all offer DDR support. However, the AMD 760 works with DDR-SDRAM memory only, while the other candidates can optionally run with SDRAM also.

Chipset Structure

The Northbridge of the ALi Magik 1 contains the DDR-SDRAM interface.

The Southbridge contains four USB interfaces and the Ultra DMA/100 interface.