"VIA's K8T800 Pro marks the first chipset that offers support for an accelerated HyperTransport bus with speeds up to 1 GHz. The launch of the chipset, which supports Athlon64 processors, also represents AMD's firing shots prior to Intel's new chipsets that will launch during the next few weeks.
Historically, VIA's chipsets have offered good performance with generally top rate features. Only their overclocking potential was held back by the lack of an AGP / PCI clock lock. The problem was that either the graphics card or the PCI components would refuse to operate if the clock speed were increased."
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tomshardware
May 5, 2004, 08:49 PM
