New chipset?

[Larommi]

Does anyone know when VIA is releasing their new VX133 chipset? If so, when is the first slotA board with the new chipset going to be released?

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I always do what the voices in my head tell me!

[BAD.IRON]

Lorommi

I don't know the answer to your question about VIA latest chip. But I due have a concern about were AMD and socket 7 are headed. I haven't heard any word about a faster k chip. If 500 or 550 is as fast as socket 7 can go, what is AMD going to do for a low cost chip? Maybe some one knows of an adapter board for the K chips to work in the A slots, like Celeron and slot 1.

[Larommi]

You make a valid point. I beleive I read somewhere that there was going to be different grades of Athlon. If not, I am sure the price will drop enough to make the low speed Athlon the bottom end chip. Look how much they have dropped already.

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I always do what the voices in my head tell me!

[Cavedog]

VIA's KX-133 chipset will be out at the end of this month.As for where AMD is heading with it's economy chips,they are comming out with a few new flavors of the Athlon as well as introducing a socket A (not slot A) chip for the budget pc. Hope this helped.

[wliu77]

I know I am waiting for the KX-133 chipset. man AGP 4x.. finally.. I think I want the FIC SK11 board. it should good potential. I am also waiting for the price drop around the 24th to buy a new chip. maybe I can get a few more MHz out of my money. I am dying to try out my Gold Finger Device.

The myth around the GFD is that you can't run the CPU at full overclock. but check out http://pc-info.hypermart.net/eng.htm as they have info to tune down the cache ratio to let the CPU be fully over-cooked err clocked.