VIA KT400A chipset review

[Big B]

AMDMB put's Via's latest (and almost certainly last) Socket A chipset through inspection.

The changes that were made to the KT400 chipset were centered on the memory controller. The KT400A chipset is still a single channel DDR chipset, despite the initial rumors that were circulating months ago. VIA does admit that they looked in to the dual channel options for AMD platforms, but from their research found that having a very efficient single channel controller was the best option and that having a dual channel controller was overkill for the Athlon XP processor that has a bandwidth limit of 333 MHz DDR speeds. Having a single channel memory controller also lowers the actual cost of development and production on the chipset as well as lowering the cost to the consumer; you only have to purchase a single DIMM to get the best performance out of the KT400A chipset as opposed to needing two DIMMs for optimal nForce2 performance.

Will this give the mighty nForce 2 the boot? I dunno; I didn't read the whole thing yet, but here ya go.

 

[xen_chris]

since via announced that they will release kt600, what chances do you think this chipset will ever have ?? the big motherboards manufacturers announced already that they are to wait for via's latest chipset. so, it's just a paper release and nothing else.

 

[Big B]

Actually, you're wrong. While it may not be used very long or by many companies, Gigabyte does have a fully working motherboard based on that chipset. If they end up being the lone wolf on this one I wouldn't be surprised.

 

[Skaeleen]

Originally posted by Big B
Actually, you're wrong. While it may not be used very long or by many companies, Gigabyte does have a fully working motherboard based on that chipset. If they end up being the lone wolf on this one I wouldn't be surprised.

Go Gigabytes, I've always been a fan of Via chipsets, AND i love thos rock solid board. Gigabyte may be the only sole person with this via chipset, maybe Soyo as well, but, Nvidia is pushing, but its like buying a new car over an old car, like Say, Volkswagen Vs Hynudai, Volks has been around a very logn time, and Hyundia hasnt, both have great preformance cars, the high end ones (even though volks beats hyundai) Say the Hyundai has better preformance over the volks, but most people want the name and durability, and are scared of changes, so they stick with the volks, even though the other car has better prefromace, thats like me :)