SUMMARY: AMD has given us mainstream 64-bit processing and now we have a bunch of chipsets to join the joy ride. Today we pit all the newest chipsets from VIA, SIS, nVidia and ALI and find out who our best choice is for our Athlon 64 powered motherboard!
- “Low Latency” with Single stream - “Pipelining” and “Concurrent Execution” with Multiple streams - “Prioritized Channel” with Specific stream - “Smart flow control” and “Intelligent arbitration” with Smart stream
Host Interface Controller
- Supports AMD Athlon 64/ Opetron CPUs - 800/600/400/200 MHz Front-Side Bus - HyperTransport TM Technology with 8/16 links support - HyperTransport TM Technology up to 1600MT/s bandwidth
Support AGP 8X Interface
- Support AGP 8X/4X Interface - Support Enhancements of AGP v3.0 Register Format - Support Fast Write Transaction
MuTIOL 1G ® Delivering 1GB/s Bandwidth
- Proprietary Interconnect between SiS655FX and SiS964 - Bi-Directional 16-bit Data Bus at 533MHz Operating Frequency
SiS964 MuTIOL 1G ® Media I/O
MuTIOL 1G ® Delivering 1GB/s Bandwidth
- Proprietary Interconnect between SiS655FX and SiS964 - Bi-Directional 16-bit Data Bus at 533MHz Operating Frequency USB 2.0/1.1 Host Controller - One EHCI USB 2.0 Controller and three OHCI USB 1.1 Controllers - Support Total 8 USB 2.0/1.1 Ports - Support USB 2.0 High-Speed Device @480 Mb/s Transfer Rates
Serial ATA Host Controller
- Two independent ports and flexible channel allocation - Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 Specification - Support Ultra DMA 150 - Support RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD configuration
PCI 2.3 Specification Compliance
- Support up to 6 PCI Masters
Fast Ethernet/Home Networking Controller with MII Interface
- Support 10/100Mb Fast Ethernet or 1/10Mb HomePNA 2.0 with External PHY
Audio/Modem Controllers with AC’97 Interface
- AC’97 v2.3 Compliant - Support 6 Channels of AC’97 Speakers Out and v.90 HSP Modem
Advanced Power Management
- ACPI 2.0 and APM 1.2 Compliant
Dual IDE Channels with Parallel ATA 133/100/66 LPC 1.1 Interface Integrated RTC Integrated Keyboard/PS2 Mouse Controller PC2001 Compliant
