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

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AMD Processors
Socket 939Athlon 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 UltraMSI K8N NeoBIOS : 1.0b23 (2004/07/06)
SiS 755 FXSiS Reference MotherboardBIOS : ?
VIA K8T800 ProAsus A8V DeluxeBIOS : 1006 (2004/06/18)
Common Hardware
Graphics CardATI Radeon 9800XT, 256 MB DDRChip Clock : 412 MHzMemory Clock : 365 MHz
Hard DriveWestern Digital WD740 Raptor10,000 rpm, 8 MB Cache, Serial ATA
DVD/CD-ROM16x DVD-ROM, MSI MS-8216
Software
Graphics DriverATI Catalyst 8-02-040515a
Nvidia Platform DriversnForce 4.27
SiS Platform DriversSiS AGP 1.17eSiS IDE 2.04a, SATA 2.00
VIA Platform DriversHyperion 4in1 Ver. 4.51
DirectXVer. 9.0b
OSWindows 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.