NVIDIA, SiS and VIA Bring on Chipsets for AMD Socket 939

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AMD Processors
Socket 939 Athlon 64 3800+ (2.4 GHz, 128/1024 kB Cache)
Memory
DDR400 (200 MHz) 2x 512 MB Corsair TwinX1024-3200XLCL 2.0-2-2-5 Timings
Motherboards
NVIDIA nForce3 Ultra MSI K8N NeoBIOS : 1.0b23 (2004/07/06)
SiS 755 FX SiS Reference MotherboardBIOS : ?
VIA K8T800 Pro Asus A8V DeluxeBIOS : 1006 (2004/06/18)
Common Hardware
Graphics Card ATI Radeon 9800XT, 256 MB DDRChip Clock : 412 MHzMemory Clock : 365 MHz
Hard Drive Western Digital WD740 Raptor10,000 rpm, 8 MB Cache, Serial ATA
DVD/CD-ROM 16x DVD-ROM, MSI MS-8216
Software
Graphics Driver ATI Catalyst 8-02-040515a
Nvidia Platform Drivers nForce 4.27
SiS Platform Drivers SiS AGP 1.17eSiS IDE 2.04a, SATA 2.00
VIA Platform Drivers Hyperion 4in1 Ver. 4.51
DirectX Ver. 9.0b
OS Windows XP Professional5.10.2600 Service Pack 1
Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

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.