VIA K8T800 PRO: PCI/AGP Lock and 1000 HyperTransport for Athlon 64
by Wesley Fink on May 6, 2004 5:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Content Creation, General Usage, and Media Encoding
Since the only substantive changes in the K8T800 PRO are the HyperTransport frequency and the AGP lock, there is absolutely no reason to expect performance to be any different on Socket 940 than current K8T800 boards. In the Winstone 2004 tests, the PRO Reference Board performs about the same as other K8T800 boards, which is exactly what would be expected.
We will likely see higher scores, in the range of maybe 2% to 5% with the introduction of Socket 939 with the K8T800 PRO. This difference would be the result of the lower latency of unbuffered memory compared to the Registered memory used in current benchmarks with the K8T800 PRO.
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bigtoe33 - Thursday, May 6, 2004 - link
Come on guys its the first look at a reference board.Reviews will come with all boards compared etc.The question you should ask is why abit hasn't implemented the lock on the new pro board they just released?
ceefka - Thursday, May 6, 2004 - link
#2 quite rightQuestion: Will Firewire suffer from the fact that it is not on-board? Will anything else suffer from the fact that Firewire will then have to be supported with an additional chip?
To stretch the importance of Firewire for the home-user. I believe that a lot of people own MiniDV camera's in and a year or so most analog videocams will be replaced with digital cams. Most of them work best with Firewire. I haven't seen any models that work explicitly with USB 2.0 so far.
Cygni - Thursday, May 6, 2004 - link
There arent any Socket 940 boards based on the 250 chipset in the open market right now.wicktron - Thursday, May 6, 2004 - link
im disappointed that it wasnt compared against nf3-250 boards.wicktron - Thursday, May 6, 2004 - link
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