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!
Socket A for AMD Athlon™, Duron™, Athlon™ XP CPU. Supports 266/333 FSB Nvidia Nforce2 SPP Chipset + Nvidia Nforce2 MCP-T 1 Floppy drive controller - 2 serial ports - 1 parallel port 6 PCI slots - 1 AGP (AGP 8X) 2 x E/IDE Ultra DMA/133, 4 drives max. 3 x DDR SDRAM PC3200, 3GB max. 4 USB 2.0 ports, 2 extra by optional USB back-panel cable Realtek ALC650 6-channel full-duplex integrated sound, with NForce Dolby level decode Onboard LAN 10/100 Mbit 2 ports IEEE 1394 (firewire™) Standard ATX format CPU clock settings are adjustable CPU V-core settings are adjustable Memory voltage settings are adjustable AGP voltage settings are adjustable CPU multiplier settings are adjustable
Features
This board is equipped with onboard LAN This board is equipped with the EZ boot™ function, to easily select a device to boot from by hitting ESC during POST This board is equipped with the Magic Health™ function, showing important system information during POST This board is equipped with the EPoX diagnostic LED system, Port 80
