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There's a review of the PT800 chipset on HardOCP dot com showing that the PT800 does slightly outperform the i875 chipset.
[Posted by: T.C. 
| Date: 07/09/03 08:25:20 AM]
| Date: 07/09/03 08:25:20 AM]Now that it is legal to use Pentium 4-supporting chipsets from VIA Technologies, a lot of mainboard makers may choose appropriate solutions from Taipei, Taiwan-based logic-designer because of competitive pricing and a number of advanced features. The Inquirer reports that ABIT will introduce its VI7 on VIA PT800 early in the third quarter, it means, next month.
ABIT’s VIA PT800-based VI7 will support Intel Socket 478 processors with 400, 533 and 800MHz Quad Pumped Bus. It will provide single-channel PC3200 DDR SDRAM memory support, AGP 8x and so on. Thanks to VIA VT8237 I/O controller, VI7 will be able to offer us Serial ATA-150 RAID, 8 USB 2.0 ports, 10/100Mb/s Ethernet, SPDIF-out and other necessary capabilities.
The mainboard should be an affordable one, though, I do not think it will outperform current i865PE or i875P-based solutions. To tell you the truth, all those single-channel 800MHz QPB-supporting products are better suitable for more or less advanced office PCs, but not for workstation or gaming machines.
