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VIA KT600 Mainboard From MSI is Coming.

Category: Mainboards

by Anton Shilov

[ 06/27/2003 | 07:37 AM ]

VIA KT600 cost-effective fever for the Summer 2003 is continuing to gain popularity among mainboard makers. This time Micro Star International announced its solution based on the core-logic that is even is able to compete with NVIDIA’s nForce2 performance champ at some price-points.

MSI’s KT6 Delta brings you the most fashionable technologies up to date, including Serial ATA-150, AGP 8x, PC3200 and MSI’s very own CoreCell features. Following the latest trends, the mainboard has support for numerous additional capabilities, as a result, the KT6 Delta will be a reasonable choice for users in budget who want to have a mainboard with features provided by higher-end products. Take a look on what MSI’s KT6 Delta offers us:

• Supports all Socket A Athlon XP/Athlon/Duron processors, including Barton CPUs with 400MHz FSB;
• VIA KT600 chipset with VT8237 I/O Controller;
• 3 DIMM slots for up to 3GB of PC1600, PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200 DDR SDRAM; 
• 5 PCI and 1 AGP 8x slot; 
• 2-channel integrated ATA-33/66/100/133 controller; 
• 10/100/Mbit/s Ethernet Adapter (or optional Gigabit Ethernet);
• 8 USB 2.0 ports; 
• 2 FireWire (IEEE1394) ports; 
• Integrated AC`97 6-channel audio solution with S/PDIF connectors; 
• Loads of additional functions from MSI, including CoreCell Chip that brings 4 technical features: Speedster, BuzzFree, PowerPro and LifePro. The Speedster technology of CoreCell Chip contains most flexible BIOS options for overclocking, including async mode of FSB and memory frequency, 0.05V increment for memory voltage adjustment and the minimal increment of 0.0125V for Vcore.
• Overclocking and tuning functions, including CPU, memory, and AGP voltage adjustments;
• ATX Form-factor.

MSI’a KT6 Delta provides excellent product bundle and will hit retail stores shortly. I have no information about the pricing of this product. Expect MSI to offer a number of different mainboards based on VIA KT600 for various market segments.