Rejoice A64 owners, VIA adds a AGP/PCI lock!

[Regs]

But man did they come late or what?

I want my money back for my ASUS K8T

 

[Monoman]

well, I think I will stick with my VIA chipset. My reasoning is it works very well.

 

[Brian48]

About time. Still, the question is how long before we actually see any boards for it? I'm been waiting practically forever for nForce 250 and now that it's (trickling) out, I find that it's really not all that much better than nForce 150. I may just say the heck with it and get a standard K8T800 board like the Epox 8HDA3+ and be done with it.

 

[XBoxLPU]

Sweet

 

[Lyfer]

Its for socket 939/940 though. So its outta my wallet's reach.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: Lyfer
Its for socket 939/940 though. So its outta my wallet's reach.

Read again, I made sure I read it was 754 also.

 

[XBoxLPU]

VIA will price the new PRO chipset version exactly the same as the previous non-PRO version. This means that you will quickly see the K8T800 PRO replace the K8T800 in every Athlon 64 configuration - Socket 754, Socket 940, and the new Socket 939. The chipset will be the same in all configurations, meaning 1000 HT and PCI/AGP lock will soon be available even in Socket 754 boards for current Athlon 64 chips that are based on the K8T800 PRO chipset.

 

[Regs]

VIA will price the new PRO chipset version exactly the same as the previous non-PRO version. This means that you will quickly see the K8T800 PRO replace the K8T800 in every Athlon 64 configuration - Socket 754, Socket 940, and the new Socket 939. The chipset will be the same in all configurations, meaning 1000 HT and PCI/AGP lock will soon be available even in Socket 754 boards for current Athlon 64 chips that are based on the K8T800 PRO chipset.

 

[Regs]

^^lol, You did it before me.

Or did you mean its not for the Kt400 or Kt 600?

 

[XBoxLPU]

Maybe he did but isn't the 939 replacing the 754 ? So we should see prices between $150-400

I know there will be 754 256 Cache "XP" chips in the future

I will not be upgrading to pro, I have had no desire to overclock. Everything is so smooth as it is at stock...

 

[zodder]

It'll be fun to see how far these A64 chips will go with PCI/AGP locking.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: zodder
It'll be fun to see how far these A64 chips will go with PCI/AGP locking.

I think 2.4 Ghz was the largest I've seen on some Nvidia pci/agp locked mobos.

And I think there is one last CPU coming out for the 754 which is 12x200 = 2.4 Ghz with 512-1MB L2.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: zodder
It'll be fun to see how far these A64 chips will go with PCI/AGP locking.

I wouldn't expect anything enormous.. they seem to have a 2.3-2.4 gig ceiling...

 

[Algere]

Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
Maybe he did but isn't the 939 replacing the 754 ? So we should see prices between $150-400

I know there will be 754 256 Cache "XP" chips in the future

I will not be upgrading to pro, I have had no desire to overclock. Everything is so smooth as it is at stock...

Same here

Need my machine stable as it's fast enough as is.

 

[Algere]

Originally posted by: CraigRT

Originally posted by: zodder
It'll be fun to see how far these A64 chips will go with PCI/AGP locking.

I wouldn't expect anything enormous.. they seem to have a 2.3-2.4 gig ceiling...

on air probably

 

[Bar81]

~2.5Ghz on air

 

[Josephus]

We can purchase a board with the K8T800 Pro chipset today. Abit's KV8 Pro. There are several vendors carrying the board in stock as I write this post... just check your favorite price engine, they're around $110 shipped.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Algere

Originally posted by: CraigRT

Originally posted by: zodder
It'll be fun to see how far these A64 chips will go with PCI/AGP locking.

I wouldn't expect anything enormous.. they seem to have a 2.3-2.4 gig ceiling...

on air probably

well ok.. heh... but most people use air cooling, so...
sh!t, the CPU's are fast enough they do not need to be overclocked

I'd probably run mine stock for quite a while

 

[Bar81]

Originally posted by: Josephus
We can purchase a board with the K8T800 Pro chipset today. Abit's KV8 Pro. There are several vendors carrying the board in stock as I write this post... just check your favorite price engine, they're around $110 shipped.

The board does not have an AGP/PCI lock

 

[Algere]

Ppl are hoping it will after a BIOS update

 

[Josephus]

Originally posted by: Bar81

Originally posted by: Josephus
We can purchase a board with the K8T800 Pro chipset today. Abit's KV8 Pro. There are several vendors carrying the board in stock as I write this post... just check your favorite price engine, they're around $110 shipped.

The board does not have an AGP/PCI lock

That board does have the Pro chip... just click on the Specifications link under Product Information

Release Notes (May 4th)

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: Josephus

Originally posted by: Bar81

Originally posted by: Josephus
We can purchase a board with the K8T800 Pro chipset today. Abit's KV8 Pro. There are several vendors carrying the board in stock as I write this post... just check your favorite price engine, they're around $110 shipped.

The board does not have an AGP/PCI lock

That board does have the Pro chip... just click on the Specifications link under Product Information

Release Notes (May 4th)

How about

this newegg listing showing the chipset as "pro" That must mean it has a lock.

 

[noteworthy]

Yes this board is the K8T800 Pro chipset.

No it does not have PCI/AGP lock available in the bios. We think they can fix this issue in the bios but there is no word yet from Abit when or if they will fix the problem. They just slapped the board together without exploiting all the benefits of the pro chipset.

shame on you abit! race to the finish and coming up shorting the user.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: noteworthy
Yes this board is the K8T800 Pro chipset.

No it does not have PCI/AGP lock available in the bios. We think they can fix this issue in the bios but there is no word yet from Abit when or if they will fix the problem. They just slapped the board together without exploiting all the benefits of the pro chipset.

shame on you abit! race to the finish and coming up shorting the user.

Chaintech pulled the same trick with not fully utilizing the Chipset's features. The rush to be first to market to generate sales has left these companies with some egg on their faces. Here's a review showing the Abit KV8 PRO is a terrible overclocker@this time link

Perhaps unhappy users RMAing these boards in quantity will convince these companies to not rush, but get it right next time

 

[l3ored]

2ghz hypertransport!!!!!! typo perhaps? i hope not