I've said recently that the current Athlon XP platform is in the golden stage of its career. Mature, full featured chipsets, combined with readily available high speed memory modules and some truly fast end-of-range processors, make my statement ring true.
We've seen the recent introdution of VIA's KT600 chipset, supporting the newest Athlon XP's and perhaps more importantly, bringing it's southbridge workhorse up to date with current technology like Serial ATA. NVIDIA of course, have done the same. nForce2 Ultra 400 is their current 32-bit high performance chipset of choice, indeed AMD relied on the chipset to show off the range topping XP3200+ recently at its launch, and it didn't disappoint.
With support for 200MHz bus processors, FireWire, dual Ethernet, lots of USB2.0 and their famous TwinBank dual-channel memory controller, DASP and Dolby Digital hardware, the chipset as a host platform for a high performance desktop or workstation is the current AMD chipset du jour.
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Hexus.net
Jul 14, 2003, 10:28 PM
