The market of Socket 478 chipsets looks quite busy now: the manufacturers are shifting toward dual-channel mainstream products, and they can twice cream the sales if they announce their new models before the release of Pentium 4 of 800MHz bus - by asserting that the chipset certainly supports future processors and, then, by making a newer version with enhanced, guaranteed and certified support. Socket A is in different situation: although NVIDIA launched the newer version of the dual-channel nForce, neither VIA nor SiS (who said "ALi"?) seem to plan that.
Today we are going to have a look at the remaining Socket A chipsets. The only thing to be mentioned is that VIA is going to launch a new version of its KT400A in spring, - it will be the A-version of KT400, i.e. it's not going to add functionality to the north bridge (though it can boost memory speed), but it will certainly attract attention to VT8237 south bridge. We will return to it on its release, and now let's go with what NVIDIA and SiS offer.
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