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Athlon XP Chipset Shootout - VIA KT400 vs. VIA KT400A vs. nVidia nForce 2

Author: Shane Baxtor SUMMARY: In terms of the enthusiast, AMD Athlon's XP processor has now taken second stage to Intel's all conquering Pentium 4 processor and army of Dual Channel enabled chipsets. AMD continue to battle it out with the support of third party chipset manufacturers, VIA Technology and nVidia, who keep the Athlon XP in the battle for the enthusiasts’ loot. Today Shawn "Toxic" Baker puts nVidia's Dual Channel nForce 2 up against VIA's Single Channel KT400 and KT400A chipsets. There can only be one winner, which will it be? Read on and discover the answer!
Editor: Cameron Wilmot
Category: CPU & Chipset
Published: 12th June 2003

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MSI KT4 Ultra Specifications

CPU

Supports Socket A (Socket 462) for AMD® Athlon™ XP/Athlon™/Duron™ processor
Supports 800MHz up to Athlon™ XP 2700+ processor

Chipset

VIA® KT400 Chipset
FSB @200/266/333MHz
Supports DDR200/266/333/400* memory
AGP 8X and PCI advanced high performance memory controller

VIA® VT8235 Chipset
Dual channel Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode EIDE controller.
ACPI & PC2001 compliant enhanced power management.
Integrated USB 2.0 controller

FSB

100/133/166 MHz clocks are supported

Main Memory

Supports six memory banks using three 184-pin DDR SDRAMs
Supports up to 3GB memory size
Supports DDR400*/DDR333/DDR266/DDR200 SDRAM
No support ECC Function

Slots

One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) slot
Supports AGP 3.0 4x/8x
Six 32-bit PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface)

On-Board IDE

An IDE controller on the VT8235 chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes

Serial ATA Interface (Optional)

Support 2 serial ATA plus 1 ATA133
RAID O or 1 are supported
RAID function works w/ATA133+SATA H/D or 2 SATA H/D
Connect up to 2 Serial ATA devices and 1 ATA133 device

Bluetooth (Optional)

1 extra pin header for Bluetooth connect connection.

Audio

C-Media 8738MX 6-channel audio + SPDIF out

On-Board Peripherals

On-Board Peripherals include:
1 floppy port supports 2 FDDs with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes
2 serial ports (COM A + COM B)
1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
1 IrDA connector for SIR/ASKIR/HPSIR
1 audio port
6 USB 2.0 ports (Rear * 4/ Front * 2)

BIOS

The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically
The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface (DMI) function which records your mainboard specifications
ACPI, 1.0a, APM1.2, PnP 1.0a, SMBIOS 2.3, USB 2.0, WFM 2.0, Overclock, Boot from USB device

Dimension

30.5 cm(L) x 23 cm(W) ATX Form Factor

Mounting

6 mounting holes








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