Firingsquad verblijdt ons met een review van AMD's huidige topmodel: de Athlon 700. Zoals we van Firingsquad gewend zijn weer véél benchmarks, maar helaas geen vergelijking met de nieuwe (en onverkrijgbare) Coppermines. Wel hebben ze een interessant stukje over de VIA KX133 chipset:
n order for the Athlon to keep up with Intel's "Coppermine" platform, future Athlon chipsets from ALi, VIA, and SiS must support upcoming technologies such as AGP4X, RDRAM, and PC133 SDRAM. Last August, VIA announced the Apollo KX133 chipset. Boasting support for up to 2GB of PC100/133 memory, the AGP 4X bus, 4 USB ports, and ATA-66 technology, this is just the product we'd like to see shipping on Athlon motherboards. Currently, the Apollo KX133 chipset is sampling to motherboard manufacturers. Expect to see motherboards based on this chipset in January from AOpen, Epox, FIC, Biostar, and Asus being among the first with boards. Future variants of the KX133 will include an integrated graphics solution (via the Savage4 graphics chip) sampling in Q2 '00, and a DDR version of the KX133 scheduled for release in the second half of 2000.
