PCI Express Motherboards for AMD

[imported_IKnowNothing]

Hi guys,

Just wondering if anyone has any information on the upcoming AMD motherboards that have PCI Express and a few other goodies

This link K8T890 from VIA, has some information on it and it sounds awesome. The VIA chipset might even support SLI with ATI cards...drool.

I haven't found much information on the Nforce4 chipset yet.

I thought we could post any new information on the new motherboards here as it comes.

The rumor is that we will see the VIA chipsets in motherboards before 2005...cool.

Cheers.

 

[klah]

Nforce4 launches in a little over two weeks.

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...7&threadid=1407044

 

[Burtie21]

will nforce 4 and via kt890 be for s939 only? or will they also support 754?

 

[Gamingphreek]

Nforce 4 (CK8-04) will support all of the chipsets. They will have 940 939 and 754 versions out.

-Kevin

 

[imported_IKnowNothing]

This is some of what the VIA K8T890 will be supporting:

The K8T890 is VIA's first chipset to support the emerging PCI Express bus standard that will eventually supplant both the AGP and PCI buses, for graphics and peripheral I/O. The K8T890 will support the full range of AMD's Athlon 64 processors, including the FX, Opteron and Sempron, in both Socket 754 and Socket 939 flavors. Along with support for a total of 22 PCI Express lanes, the K8T890 Northbridge, when coupled with the VT8251 Southbridge, offers a full 16-bit / 1GHz (2GHz DDR) HyperTransport link between the CPU and Northbridge, which VIA calls "Hyper8". The K8T890 / VT8251 combo also has support for VIA's Vinyl Audio, which can be configured for 6 or 8 channel operation, VIA's DriveStation with PATA and SATA support including V-RAID, 8 USB 2.0 ports, and the requisite floppy, serial, and parallel connections.

Looks pretty good. Plus I don't think you are limited to only using Nvidia cards in SLI mode. Rumor is ATI is coming out with this option for their cards.

I can't wait to see what kind of motherboards come from the Nforce4 and VIA chipset!

OMG... Dual core processors and SLI graphics with 10,000RPM HD's......DOH!

 

[Tab]

I assume we will have memory dividers are these... or something? I still dont understand how it works :| with memory dividers and stuff :|

 

[Burtie21]

do you think the new chipsets will support agp aswell, or only pci-e?

 

[AristoV300]

PCI-e since there is so much more possible bandwith than agp.