nForce 2A soon?
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on April 7, 2003 at 2:58:43 PM
This is really stupid. I'm sure that chipset companies like VIA and nVidia can see some future of the platform they are supporting. The chipsets on the market aren't that old, yet they must make a new one to support the 400Mhz FSB chips.
Dual DDR is USELESS on an Athlon. The CPU FSB is at the same speed as a single DDR slot. The only consumer CPU on the market that benefits from dual DDR is the
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Nvidia is planning to shortly introduce a new-generation core logic chipset to support upcoming 400MHz FSB (front-side bus) Barton-core Athlon XP processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), said Drew Henry, Nvidias senior director of platform product management, in a telephone interview. He gave no details on the products name and design, however, saying only that Nvidia would maintain its lead in product specifications. Currently, Nvidias nForce2 is the only chipset supporting DDR400 standard, dual-channel memory architecture and a 400MHz FSB, Henry said. Although rival VIA Technologies is said to claim that its new KT400A would be able to deliver performance greatly closer to the nForce2 through single-channel memory architecture, Henry noted that the nForce2 still leads in performance, as it can offer higher speed support for standards like USB 2.0 and AGP 8x graphics technologies.
Dual DDR is USELESS on an Athlon. The CPU FSB is at the same speed as a single DDR slot. The only consumer CPU on the market that benefits from dual DDR is the