Where is the KT/KM960 chipset for AM2+ ?

Agent24 · #1 (**permalink**) 29-02-08, 07:11 AM

These were announced a long time ago... where are they? and whatever happened to the dual graphics boards which could unofficially run SLI?

Mr. Chris · #2 (**permalink**) 01-03-08, 12:44 AM

Both good questions. Looks like they are still in the works. I didn't even know VIA had an AM2 board, let alone an AM2+ planned.

Personally I'm going to get an Abit AX78 and a Phenom 9600 with some nice 1066Mhz RAM. I should have it by next Wednesday. Gonna be cool!

Sorry I can't answer your other question, but will ask around. Chris.

Agent24 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-03-08, 01:11 AM

The K8M/K8T890 is for AM2, there's a few boards about such as the Asus M2V, and similar from Asrock and Foxconn

But I've never seen the K8T890Pro with DualGFX... (HEXUS.net - Headline :: Computex 2005: VIA K8T890 Pro runs NVIDIA SLI : Page - 1/1)

I suppose the 960 will be soon, even nvidia hasn't got their AM2+ chipsets out yet

T@2 · #4 (**permalink**) 01-03-08, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Agent24

These were announced a long time ago... where are they? and whatever happened to the dual graphics boards which could unofficially run SLI?

I heard some rumors that VIA might folow its own products and may stop chipsets for AMD or Intel.Lets hope they will try to reenter the market because in the past they had excellent AMD and Intel chipsets.Although the North Bridge is almost all included in the Phenoms core there is still a place for periferic conection chipsets.

tcsenter · #5 (**permalink**) 02-03-08, 07:28 AM

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Where is the KT/KM960 chipset for AM2+?

VIA has settled for the value segment. This means people who buy a motherboard for Sempron64 to mid-range X2, not flagship parts.

All current AMD64 chipsets can support AM2+ albiet @ HT 2.0, only the motherboard design need be changed. K8T890 and K8M890 when used with VT8237S have PCI Express x16, 2 x PCI Express x1, SATA 3Gbps, and HD Audio, which is all that Kx960 was slated to have but with support for AHCI and integrated Gigabit MAC. Memory support is defined by the AMD64 CPU, so that is not a chipset issue.

VIA could stand to refresh its P4M900 and PT890 to support DDR2-800 (or even DDR2-1066), 1333MHz FSB, and 45nm CPUs, but its AMD chipsets are not really lacking given the value segment positioning of motherboards with VIA chipsets.

VIA won't really need an HT 3.0 chipset until AMD starts shipping mainstream HT 3.0 parts based on Agena and Kuma, which will be at least a few months. Even then, newer VIA chipset releases over the past few years have usually lagged a couple months behind the newer processors.

VIA's integrated graphics could use a refresh but then that is the never-ending story.

Agent24 · #6 (**permalink**) 15-09-08, 10:09 AM

VIA's K8T900 chipset - The Tech Report - Page 1

They had two S3 PCI-E cards in 'Multichrome' which were faster than 6600GTs in SLI...

Sure it's not great now but at the time it was pretty good. Don't understand why they didn't do anything with it. Might have done well in an ultra-budget gaming rig (lol)