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... VIA Apollo KT266A Chipset White Paper VIA Apollo KT266A Chipset Modular, highly scalable Socket A DDR chipset featuring Performance Driven Design Page 1 8/24/2001 ...
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... Design philosophy, the VIA Apollo KT266A provides blistering memory performance for today and tomorrow’s demanding applications. The launch of the VIA Apollo KT266A solidifies VIA’s role as the leader in DDR platform development. It also builds upon previous VIA chipset technology, ensuring a stable, reliable, and scalable platform. Both new and proven ...
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... Athlon/Duron systems. This white paper describes the features of the VIA Apollo KT266A chipset, as well as the performance benefits that enable next generation computing for high-performance desktops, workstations, and servers based on the AMD Athlon ...
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... VIA Apollo KT266A Chipset White Paper VIA Apollo KT266A North Bridge The North Bridge of VIA Apollo KT266A (model number VT8366A) is the first VIA product with Performance Driven Design. As such, it includes new features and technology performance for the Socket A platform. Enhancements include tightened timings on the S2K front side bus, deeper instruction and data queuing, and the unique ability to burst up to eight Quad Words per clock ...
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... VT8366A is also extremely flexible 4GB of DDR200 or DDR266 is supported, including ECC and Registered modules. Also, PC100 and PC133 are supported, enabling platforms built upon the VIA Apollo KT266A to reach very competitive price points. The VIA Apollo KT266A provides OEMs and System Integrators with maximum flexibility and scalability to build a full spectrum of high-performance and cost effective systems from mainstream consumer and commercial desktops to high-end workstations and servers ...
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... VIA Apollo KT266A Chipset White Paper VIA V-Link Hub Architecture VIA has developed V-Link technology to remove the PCI bus as the bottleneck in inter-chip communication. In less advanced chipsets, the PCI bus is responsible for connecting both the north and South Bridge, as well as providing a bus for most add-in peripherals. VIA V-Link technology provides a dedicated 66MHz quad-pumped bus between the North and South Bridge, freeing up the PCI bus to deal strictly with peripheral devices ...
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... SiSoft’s Sandra is the world’s most popular tool for measuring the memory performance of a platform. Sandra uses standard Stream benchmarks to gauge the average bandwidth a particular memory controller can deliver. The VIA Apollo KT266A provides over 30% faster memory performance than the VIA Apollo KT266 using identical components. Page 7 ...
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... Apollo KT266. Conclusion As a pin compatible replacement for Apollo KT266, VIA Apollo KT266A leverages the many existing motherboard designs already on the market. Thus, the VIA Apollo KT266A is the only mature, high performance Socket A DDR chipset available today. Page 8 8/24/2001 ...
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... VIA Apollo KT266A Chipset White Paper The first chipset designed under the mantra of Performance Driven Design, the VIA Apollo KT266A provides the responsiveness users expect from a high performance chipset, and then some. As part of the V-MAP family of DDR chipsets, the VIA Apollo KT266A also offers the modularity and reliability OEMs and System Integrators demand from an advanced platform ...