Jon Simon van Sharky Extreme is op de koffie geweest bij Gigabyte en valt ons daarmee lastig met dit verslagje. In het artikel o.a. info over de komende moederborden van de fabrikant, waaronder de GA-7ZM, een Socket A plankje met de KZ133 chipset:
Coming in the second half of 2000, Gigabyte will be shipping three main types of AMD Athlon motherboards. There will be several models based on VIA's KM133 and KZ133, the descendents of VIA's KX133 chipset. These motherboards will use the Socket A CPU connector, which will coincide with AMD's move to producing only Socket A based Athlons. AMD is moving to the Socket A form factor because it saves several dollars per CPU in manufacturing costs.
There will also be new boards based on AMD's IGD4 760 chipset. This chipset will introduce PC266 DDR memory to the main memory market. Unfortunately, the chipset will carry only ATA/66 and not ATA/100 for drive access.
Below is a rare image of Gigabyte's upcoming GA-7ZM, a socket A based board that uses VIA's KZ133 chipset matched to their 686A southbridge. The board features AGP4x, two PCI slots, one ISA slot, one AMR slot, ATA/66 and four USB ports.
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Klik hier voor meer info over bv. de GA-6WXM-E i810e, GA-6CX i820 en Gigabyte's i815E plankje.
