VIA shows K8T890

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The first chipset to arrive is the K8T890 which should be available in the next few weeks from a range of board vendors. On display were machines from Abit, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI, with a further range of boards from Albatron and Soltek also on show. Asus informed the gathered journalists that its AV8-E Deluxe should be available within two weeks and pricing should be in the region of £130.
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More interestingly VIA had a working demo of the K8T890 Pro chipset, which supports DualGFX. DualGFX enables you to use two PCI Express graphics cards in one PC, although VIA claims that its implementation is technically capable of supporting SLI, it unfortunately doesn’t work at this time. The reasons for this aren’t fully clear at the moment, but it’s possible that nVidia has ensured that for now at least, SLI will only work on one of its own nForce4 SLI boards. VIA’s stance is that even without SLI, having two graphics cards will still bring benefits to both gamers and other PC users, as it means that you can use up to four displays. In addition, were a competing graphics card company, say for example ATI, to produce a competing solution to nVidia's SLI, VIA’s DualGFX boards would be very likely to work.

The K8T890 Pro chipset isn’t expected to ship until early 2005, so don’t expect to see motherboards with DualGFX to arrive any day soon.

The reason for the wait is that VIA is working on a new southbridge to add adds a further two x2 lanes for additional PCI Express devices. Without it, you wouldn't be able to use any other PCI Express cards, as VIA’s implementation of DualGFX (1x16 + 1x4) would use up all twenty of the PCI Express lanes supported on K8T890 Pro.

While the announcement of VIA’s DualGFX is welcome at the moment SLI looks like being a one horse race unless nVidia changes its current stance and allows competitors motherboards to work with SLI as well.
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Also on show was a dual CPU board for AMD’s Opteron processors, which also offers support for DualGFX. This will be very useful in a workstation environment as while multiple displays support for workstations is commonplace, it is currently only supported by very costly hardware.
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http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=868
http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=255754
 
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A Asus cancelou a AV8.

The world’s largest maker of mainboards, ASUSTeK Computer, said in an interview with a German web-site that it has no plans to introduce a premium-class mainboard based on VIA’s latest chipset for AMD64 processors with PCI Express interconnection support because the core-logic is not “that efficient” as NVIDIA’s nForce4 product is.

In an interview to Hard Tecs 4U web-site an ASUS representative said the company currently has no plans to utilize VIA’s K8T890 core-logic, VIA’s first chipset with PCI Express interconnection for AMD Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX and Sempron processors. Later, according to the report, the world’s leading mainboard company may reconsider its positions and include a product based on VIA’s K8T890 core-logic into the product family. Current plans of ASUS include adoption of NVIDIA nForce4 chipsets, including NVIDIA nForce4 SLI core-logic, one of the world's most advanced media and communication processors.

VIA Technologies, the world’s No. 2 maker of chipsets, formally announced its VIA K8T890 chipset in late September. Neither then, nor now, the chipset’s performance and market availability are clear. The K8T890 chipset supports AMD Athlon 64, AMD Sempron and AMD Opteron processors in various form-factors, including chips with 800MHz and 1000MHz HyperTransport bus. The main peculiarity of VIA’s latest chipset is support for a PCI Express x16 lane for graphics cards and support for 4 PCI Express x1 lanes for other kinds of add-in cards by the North Bridge. VIA’s K8T890 can operate with outdated VT8237 I/O controller, or yet-to-be-launched VT8251 South Bridge.

In case VIA’s K8T890 is considerably slower and/or less stable compared to NVIDIA’s nForce4 product series, VIA may lose numerous designs with mainboard makers as well as its positioning among enthusiasts. Historically NVIDIA offered faster chipsets compared to VIA’s products, but was not really popular among mainstream end-users and system builders with its nForce products because of higher stability VIA could offer. However, if NVIDIA had tackled all possible nForce4-related issues, customers may now shift to NVIDIA because of higher speed and more sophisticated I/O features.

VIA, who has been traditionally leading chipset market of AMD processors, currently pins a lot of hope on AMD64 market because of higher margins.
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http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/chipsets/display/20041205023112.html
 
Parece uma desculpa meio esfarrapada para poderem "cortar" na diversidade de ofertas. A brincar a brincar ainda sao, no minimo, umas 2/3 versoes de boards de cada chipset e eh quando nao sao mais.
 
Isso é jogo da Nvidia por detrás.

Para quem não saiba, o desenvolvimento do nForce4 SLI foi feito em conjunto com a Asus, daí as primeiras reviews e números que a Nvidia apresentou foi sempre com a board Asus.

E agora com a noticia do Chipset para Intel da Nvidia, a Asus já descobriu ali um negócio de parceria que interessa a ambos, logo, bem podem "lixar" na Via, que a médio prazo se irão tornar secundários comparando com a margem de mercado que a Nvidia irá possuir.
 
Isto tem escrito "acordo com nvidia" em todo o lado, afinal são dos primeiros 3 fabricantes (e desses o primeiro) a ter boards baseadas em nforce4 no mercado...pode ser mania da conspiração mas duvido....
 
Acho uma pena o K8T890 estar a ser posta de lado..

Na minha opinião, este chipset é aquilo que a nforce4 deveria ter sido: uma board para A64 socket939 com SLI e som imbutido de alta qualidade..
 
ToTTenTranz disse:
Acho uma pena o K8T890 estar a ser posta de lado..

Na minha opinião, este chipset é aquilo que a nforce4 deveria ter sido: uma board para A64 socket939 com SLI e som imbutido de alta qualidade..
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E a performance e/em overclock? Nao tem direito a ser factor decisivo?
 
P4rthen0n disse:
E a performance e/em overclock? Nao tem direito a ser factor decisivo?
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Overclock não sei, mas basta que a performance em default seja a mesma do K8T800 para que a diferença para o nforce4 seja negligenciável.

Aliás.. teoricamente, como a nforce4 usa um sistema de som que é todo feito por software, é bastante provável que em condições iguais (mesmo cpu, mesma memória, som imbutido e ligado), a performance em jogos do K8T890 seja superior à da nforce4.. digo eu..
 
ToTTenTranz disse:
Overclock não sei, mas basta que a performance em default seja a mesma do K8T800 para que a diferença para o nforce4 seja negligenciável.

Aliás.. teoricamente, como a nforce4 usa um sistema de som que é todo feito por software, é bastante provável que em condições iguais (mesmo cpu, mesma memória, som imbutido e ligado), a performance em jogos do K8T890 seja superior à da nforce4.. digo eu..
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concordo...
 
Intel + AMD
NVidia + ATi
Gigabyte + ASUS
+R + -R

... é impressã ominha ou o ramo informático anda todo a entrar na onda do "dividimos o mercado a meio e corremos com a concorrencia" ??? :cool:
 
Gigabyte + ASUS ?

LOL ... és crente.

Podes dizer Giga + ASUS + ABIT + MSI e só para power users

PC's integrados usam marcas da tanga.
 
sotavento disse:
Intel + AMD
NVidia + ATi
Gigabyte + ASUS
+R + -R

... é impressã ominha ou o ramo informático anda todo a entrar na onda do "dividimos o mercado a meio e corremos com a concorrencia" ??? :cool:
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isto não vem de agora...sempre assim foi, é o resultado de uma cena chamada competição ;) lol
 
ASUS A8V-E K8T890 Mainboard Announced

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The A8V-E Deluxe is designed as one all new AMD 64-bit platform for leading performance and demanding entertainment / multimedia applications with VIA K8T890 chipset. Being one insightful new technology pioneer, A8V-E Deluxe has been one best choice for new video and gaming innovation experience by PCI express x 16 graphics with 64 bit leading computing. More than that It also supports AMD 939 64-bit K8 CPU. And most impressively A8V-E Deluxe brings you to new mother board era with ASUS proactive feartures, AI N.O.S. , Precision Tweaker, Wifi-g on board & AI NET2.
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Link

lol.........
 
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