SlotA.com kreeg van VIA een demo Athlon MicroATX bord opgestuurd gebaseerd op de KM133 chipset wat basicly gewoon een KT133 chipset is met geïntegreede graphics en sound. Helaas geen benchmarks in het artikel maar verwacht wordt dat deze uiteraard niet veel zullen verschillen van de huidige Socket A oplossingen van VIA. Wij tweakers zijn natuurlijk wel geïnteresseerd in de overklok features:
Due to the nature of the board being a demo or test board there is a very wide array of over-clocking features. The clock multiplier, voltage, and bus speeds are all controlled by 5 banks of dip switches.Bus speeds include the following for the W210 or C9706 clock generator chip:
66.8/75/79/83/100.2/110/115/120/124/129/133.3/138/143MHz
Bus speeds include the following when using the ICS 9248-114 clock generator chip:
66.8/75/83.3/100/103/105/110/112/115/120/124/133/140/150MHz
Clock multiplier settings include the following: 5 5.5 6 6.5 7 7.5 8 8.5 9 9.5 10 10.5 11 11.5 12.5
Voltage setting include between 1.100 to 1.850 in .025V increments. This board definitely is loaded with a lot of over-clocking features. Now whether production boards will still include the ability to change the clock multiplier or not is still an unknown. I most certainly hope that they do because without it we lose one of the things that makes the Athlon so overclockable.
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