Bij de Duitse Heise.de staat een nieuwsbericht over wat problemen met de VIA KT133 chipset voor de Socket A Duron en Athlon. Het schijnt namelijk dat veel mobofabrikanten problemen hebben om hun modellen productieklaar te krijgen vanwege een aantal bugs. Zo wordt het systeem instabiel als er drie geheugen slots zijn gevuld, iets wat ook gemeld werd in deze MSI K7T Pro review. Onderstaande info is vertaald met Babel Fish:
The second surprise pleased fewer: Hardly a KT133-Board was production-ready. Some manufacturers spoke of bug in the chip record and from this resulting delays with the distribution. Others became more concrete and acknowledged that the KT133 runs unstably, if it is equipped with three PC133-Speichermodulen - particularly with three different -. Some saw the causes in the current supply, others in the BIOS, and again different wanted to have solved these problems, without wanting to give to us however Samples. And VIA already the memory interface had limited opposite the KX133 something, by now are possible instead of eight only six memory banks. Some manufacturers announced besides doubts about VIAs Produkionskapazitaeten and nevertheless some delivery bottlenecks feared due to the high demand. They are in each case naturally not concerned, since one ranks among the Top5 of the VIA friends - altogether must have VIA therefore at least 20 Top5-Freunde...
As the further reason for the delays in the KT development many manufacturers complained that AMD had supplied them only very insufficiently with test copies of the new processors Thunderbird and Duron. Perhaps there was quite little to therefore see on the Main board statuses Thunderbird demos: Or two test copies needed the development departments probably many more urgently, than that one would have shown them one week long to the Computex.