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Chip Set Comparison: Is nForce2 In The Lead?

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Chipset	VIA Apollo KT333	VIA Apollo KT266A	NVIDIA nForce2	NVIDIA nForce
Launch	February 2002	September 2001	July 2002	September 2001
Platform	Socket 462	Socket 462	Socket 462	Socket 462
Processors	AMD Duron/Athlon/XP	AMD Duron/Athlon/XP	AMD Duron/Athlon/XP	AMD Duron/Athlon/XP
Multi-Processor Support	no	no	no	no
Northbridge	VIA KT333	VIA KT266A	NVIDIA nForce2 IGP	NVIDIA IGP 128
Southbridge	VIA VT8233A	VIA VT8233	NVIDIA nForce2 MCP / MCP-T	NVIDIA MCP-D
Front Side Bus	100/133 MHz DDR	100/133 MHz DDR	100/133 MHz DDR	100/133 MHz DDR
Memory Clock	100/133/166 MHz DDR	100/133 MHz DDR	100/133/166/200 MHz DDR	100/133 MHz DDR
Asynchronous Memory Mode	yes	yes	yes	yes
Max. # DIMM	4	4	4	3
Max. RAM	3072 MB	3072 MB	3072 MB	3072 MB
SDRAM Support	yes	yes	no	no
DDR-SDRAM Support	DDR200, DDR266, DDR333	DDR200, DDR266, DDR333	DDR200, DDR266, DDR333, DDR400	DDR200, DDR266
UltraDMA/33/66/100/133	yes/yes/yes/yes	yes/yes/yes/no	yes/yes/yes/yes	yes/yes/yes/no
# USB	6	6	6	6
Max. # PCI	6	6	6	6
Integrated Graphics	no	no	yes, GeForce4 MX	yes, GeForce2 MX
Integrated Sound Chip	yes	yes	yes	yes
4x / 8x	yes/yes	yes/no	yes/yes	yes/no
ACPI	yes	yes	Yes	yes
USB 2.0 / FireWire	Yes / no	No / no	Yes / yes	No / no

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Chipset	AMD 760	SiS 745	ALi Magik 1
Launch	February 2001	November 2001	Februar 2001
Platform	Socket 462	Socket 462	Socket 462
Processors	AMD Duron/Athlon/XP	AMD Duron/Athlon/XP	AMD Duron/Athlon/XP
Multi-Processor Support	no	no	no
Northbridge	AMD 761	SiS 745	ALi M1647
Southbridge	AMD 765	integrated	ALi M1535D+
Front Side Bus	100/133 MHz DDR	66/100/133 MHz DDR	100/133 MHz DDR
Memory Clock	100/133 MHz DDR	66/100/133 MHz DDR	100/133 MHz DDR
Asynchronous Memory Mode	yes	yes	yes
Max. # DIMM	4	3	4
Max. RAM	2048 MB	3072 MB	1024 MB
SDRAM Support	no	no	yes
DDR-SDRAM Support	yes	yes	yes
UltraDMA/33/66/100/133	yes/yes/yes/no	yes/yes/yes/no	yes/yes/yes/no
# USB	4	6	6
Max. # PCI	6	6	6
Integrated Graphics	no	no	no
Integrated Sound Chip	yes	yes	yes
4x / 8x	yes/no	yes/no	yes/no
ACPI	yes	yes	yes
USB 2.0 / FireWire	No / no	No / yes	No / no

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Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.