Coen Rijkaart schrijft: "Mike Andrawes van AnandTech heeft wat Socket A moederbordjes getest. Hij vergelijk de FIC, MSI, een Compaq OEM bord en het VIA reference board. Jammer genoeg somt hij alleen de feautures op en zijn er geen daadwerkelijke benchmarks. In tegenstelling tot de release van de Athlon Classic is moederbord-ondersteuning voor de Duron / Thunderbird geen probleem; bijna alle grote namen hebben een bord af of hebben er een aangekondigd":
A plethora of boards were announced simultaneously with the launch of the Thunderbird at Computex 2000 on June 5. While those boards were not available for this preview, we'd like to briefly mention a few notable products that are on the way.
ASUS has their A7V, the successor to the popular K7V, our favorite Athlon motherboard. Unique features of the A7V include an AGP Pro slot and an optional Promise Ultra ATA 100 controller.
MSI's second Socket-A board, the K7T Master, is already being readied. The K7T Master adds AGP Pro and on-board SCSI, a first for an Athlon motherboard.
QDI has announced a Socket-A motherboard, the KinetiZ 7T, that allows breaking of the Thunderbird / Duron multiplier lock by using pins labeled as "reserved" in AMD's documentation. Not much else is known about this board at the moment, but if this ability is truly available, the KinetiZ 7T will be a huge success among overclockers.
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