Pentium 4/2200 vs. Athlon XP 2000+

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Chipsets/Boards For Pentium 4 And Athlon XP

A well-known board for the AMD Athlon XP: the Epox EP-8KHA+ with Socket 462.

A popular board for Pentium 4: the Asus P4T-E with Socket 478.

The following tables show an overview of all chipsets and the respective features of the two platforms from AMD Athlon XP and Intel Pentium 4.

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Chipset	VIA Apollo KT266A	VIA Apollo KT266	SiS 735	Nvidia nForce	AMD 760
Launch	September 2001	April 2001	May 2001	September 2001	February 2001
Processor Platform	Socket 462	Socket 462	Socket 462	Socket 462	Socket 462
CPUs supported	AMD Duron/Athlon/XP	AMD Duron/Athlon/XP	AMD Duron/Athlon/XP	AMD Duron/Athlon/XP	AMD Duron/Athlon/XP
Multiprocessor Support	no	no	no	no	no
Chipset Northbridge	VIA KT266A	VIA VT8366	SiS 735	Nvidia IGP 128	AMD 761
Chipset Southbridge	VIA VT8233	VIA VT8233	-	Nvidia MCP-D	AMD 765
Front Side Bus Clock	100/133 MHz DDR	100/133 MHz DDR	66/100/133 MHz DDR	100/133 MHz DDR	100/133 MHz DDR
Memory Clock	100/133 MHz DDR	100/133 MHz DDR	66/100/133 MHz DDR	100/133 MHz DDR	100/133 MHz DDR
Asynchronous Memory Clock	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
FSB Overclocking*	up to 200 MHz	up to 200 MHz	up to 150 MHz	up to 150 MHz	up to 150 MHz
max. # DIMM or RIMM Slots	4	4	3	3	4
max. Memory	3072 MB	3072 MB	1536 MB	4096 MB	2048 MB
SDRAM Support	yes	yes	yes	no	no
DDR SDRAM Support	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Dual-Channel DDR-Support	no	no	no	yes	no
RIMM Support (Rambus)	no	no	no	no	no
Ultra-DMA/33/66/100	yes/yes/yes	yes/yes/yes	yes/yes/yes	yes/yes/yes	yes/yes/yes
Max. # USB Ports	6	6	6	6	4
max. # PCI Slots	6	6	6	6	6
Integrated Graphics Core	no	no	6	yes	no
Integrated Sound	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
AGP 1x / 2x / 4x	yes / yes / yes	yes / yes / yes	yes / yes / yes	yes / yes / yes	yes / yes / yes
ACPI Features	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes