Pentium 4/2200 vs. Athlon XP 2000+

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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ChipsetVIA Apollo KT266AVIA Apollo KT266SiS 735Nvidia nForceAMD 760
LaunchSeptember 2001April 2001May 2001September 2001February 2001
Processor PlatformSocket 462Socket 462Socket 462Socket 462Socket 462
CPUs supportedAMD Duron/Athlon/XPAMD Duron/Athlon/XPAMD Duron/Athlon/XPAMD Duron/Athlon/XPAMD Duron/Athlon/XP
Multiprocessor Supportnonononono
Chipset NorthbridgeVIA KT266AVIA VT8366SiS 735Nvidia IGP 128AMD 761
Chipset SouthbridgeVIA VT8233VIA VT8233-Nvidia MCP-DAMD 765
Front Side Bus Clock100/133 MHz DDR100/133 MHz DDR66/100/133 MHz DDR100/133 MHz DDR100/133 MHz DDR
Memory Clock100/133 MHz DDR100/133 MHz DDR66/100/133 MHz DDR100/133 MHz DDR100/133 MHz DDR
Asynchronous Memory Clockyesyesyesyesyes
FSB Overclocking*up to 200 MHzup to 200 MHzup to 150 MHzup to 150 MHzup to 150 MHz
max. # DIMM or RIMM Slots44334
max. Memory3072 MB3072 MB1536 MB4096 MB2048 MB
SDRAM Supportyesyesyesnono
DDR SDRAM Supportyesyesyesyesyes
Dual-Channel DDR-Supportnononoyesno
RIMM Support (Rambus)nonononono
Ultra-DMA/33/66/100yes/yes/yesyes/yes/yesyes/yes/yesyes/yes/yesyes/yes/yes
Max. # USB Ports66664
max. # PCI Slots66666
Integrated Graphics Corenono6yesno
Integrated Soundyesyesyesyesyes
AGP 1x / 2x / 4xyes / yes / yesyes / yes / yesyes / yes / yesyes / yes / yesyes / yes / yes
ACPI Featuresyesyesyesyesyes

* depends on clock generator

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