John Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:59:21 -0500, Philip Wright
> <> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of planned ASUS motherboards that will
>> use the K8T900 chipset?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Philip
>
>
> And why would you ever want that chipset ?
I can see several reasons. First, boards MAY be cheaper than those with
nforce4 chipsets. More important (at least to me) is that it will (just
like its predecessor, k8t900) use significantly lower power than nforce4
- in fact it's a PITA to get passive-cooled nforce4 boards, whereas the
via-based should be pretty all be passively cooled (nforce4 boards seem
to use either a crappy-as-usual fan on the northbridge, some expensive
heatpipe solution or in the rare case of the passively cooled ones just
get exceedingly hot).
That said, imho the feature set of k8t900 is somewhat disappointing,
gigabit ethernet should really be integrated into the southbridge
(vt8251) nowadays. The only worthwile feature k8t900 has over k8t890
(thanks to the new southbridge) is 4 s-ata ports instead of 2. (It also
has support for more pci-e 1x slots I believe which boards won't feature
anyway, supports hd-audio (who cares???) and the oh-so-needed
multi-chrome support (no thanks I don't want to use multiple graphic
cards, especially not s3 ones...).)
So a k8t890 board (like a8v-e se) should be almost as good, except you
lose 2 sata ports. (Just make sure you get a board which can support x2
cpus, I'm not quite sure what changed between boards which can and which
can't, probably a new chipset revision but could also have been pcb
layout changes who knows - I'm still wondering how they managed to break
x2 support in the first place, as it should be fully transparent to the
chipset.)
Roland
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