VIA has begun shipping its Apollo KT600 chipset for 400MHz frontside bus Athlon XP processors, and has signed 20-odd mobo makers to use the product.
The KT600 north bridge chip provides AGP 4x/8x, 266-400MHz FSB support and incorporates VIA's FastStream64 400MHz DDR SDRAM controller which, according to VIA, "uses an expanded array of prefetch buffers to reduce latency in the memory controller, extending performance at a lower transistor cost than dual channel implementations". The chip can cope with up to 4GB of DDR memory. The chipset includes the VT8237 south bridge, which provides Serial ATA with RAID support (offering RAID 0, 1 and 0+1), parallel ATA (up to four devices), VIA's Vinyl six-channel audio sub-system and the eight-channel Gold version, plus support for up to eight USB 2.0 ports, 56Kbps modem and 10/100Mbps Ethernet. Both chips connect across VIA's 8x V-Link 533MBps bus.
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The KT600 north bridge chip provides AGP 4x/8x, 266-400MHz FSB support and incorporates VIA's FastStream64 400MHz DDR SDRAM controller which, according to VIA, "uses an expanded array of prefetch buffers to reduce latency in the memory controller, extending performance at a lower transistor cost than dual channel implementations". The chip can cope with up to 4GB of DDR memory. The chipset includes the VT8237 south bridge, which provides Serial ATA with RAID support (offering RAID 0, 1 and 0+1), parallel ATA (up to four devices), VIA's Vinyl six-channel audio sub-system and the eight-channel Gold version, plus support for up to eight USB 2.0 ports, 56Kbps modem and 10/100Mbps Ethernet. Both chips connect across VIA's 8x V-Link 533MBps bus.
The keyboard is significantly smaller than that of the original Treo. The keys have a dome shape to them intended to make typing with thumbs easier. It has an integrated digital camera and will be able to send pictures via wireless e-mail. It will also play MP3 music files. The only thing we see missing is Bluetooth, and that can easily be added in a later model if the market demands it.
It will run Palm OS 5.2 and will come in versions for both GSM and CDMA wireless phone networks. On the CDMA side, you can expect Sprint PCS to be a major carrier--as it has carried the Treo 300 for some time and has a history with Handspring.

i realize not everyone experiences problems with VIA and actually likes it, but not me..never again.
If you know how to setup your PC
I dont think Via ahould have wasted their time releasing the KT400A being the KT600 is superior to it and only 2 or 3 mobos came out with the chip. AFAIK
but hey... still got 7 other computers to play with...
There were a couple problems with a few games but I think that was normal. (Bugs in the game).
Or maybe you guys were talking about just the via drivers for amd?
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