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When are the VIA k8t900 motherboards coming out?

Not sure, but I'm looking forward to them. VIA has been making some excellent chipsets lately. Very very stable.
 
HotHardware did an evaluation of a reference board back in November. Since the K8T900 is pin-for-pin compatable with existing K8T890 motherboards, they figured that the K8T900 motherboards would start showing up as K8T890 chipset stocks dwindle and expected to see a VIA Rapidfire board come February. However, the K8T900 was specifically designed for the new AMD M2 socket with DDR2 support and motherboard makers might wait for the new socket to introduce the K8T900 chipset. The good news is that the new socket will be available first quarter 2006. (so sometime before the end of March!) http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=25098
 
K8T900, like all other AMD64 chipsets, is completely agnostic to what CPU socket or type you use. There is no such thing as "chipset specifically designed for socket XXX" in this architecture.

For M2, chipsets may bring support for higher HT link speeds - but that doesn't mean they aren't just as good on any one of the three existing socket types.

In other words, there is no technical excuse for the lack of boards using this chipset - other than actual chip availability in mass quantities.
 
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