MSI Announces Mainboards On VIA PT800, VIA KT600, SiS648FX

by Anton Shilov
06/04/2003 | 05:55 AM

Computex Taipei Trade Show is a very important for loads of Asian companies since they can exhibit their latest products on the event attended by dozens of specialists from the USA and Europe. This ensures that the world will know about their products and they are able to land more orders from more clients. That is why the postponement of the Computex 2003 may play a bad joke with numerous companies from Asia. However, big companies decided to showcase bunch of new products on their own web-sites. MSI is one of them and here are new mainboards the company is  presenting on its web-site now.

KT6 Delta: Socket A; VIA KT600 + VT8237; 200/266/333/400MHz FSB; 3 DIMM slots for up to 3GB of PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200 (DDR400) memory; AGP 8x, 5 PCI slots, 2-channel ATA-33/66/100/133; 2-channel Serial ATA-150 controller; 8 USB 2.0 ports; 10/100Mb/s LAN; 6-channel audio; Optional 10/100/1000Mb/s LAN; Optional FireWire; Optional Parallel/Serial ATA RAID; ATX.

PT8 Neo: Socket 478; VIA PT800 + VT8237; 400/533/800MHz QPB; 3 DIMM slots for up to 3GB of PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200 (DDR400) memory; AGP 8x, 5 PCI slots, 2-channel ATA-33/66/100/133; 2-channel Serial ATA-150 controller; 8 USB 2.0 ports; Optional 10/100Mb/s LAN; 6-channel audio; Optional FireWire; ATX.

648F Neo: Socket 478; SiS648FX + SiS693; 400/533/800MHz QPB; 3 DIMM slots for up to 3GB of PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200 (DDR400) memory; AGP 8x, 6 PCI slots, 2-channel ATA-33/66/100/133; 6 USB 2.0 ports; 10/100Mb/s LAN; 6-channel audio; Optional 10/100/1000Mb/s LAN; Optional FireWire; Optional Parallel/Serial ATA RAID; ATX.

Since VIA PT800 and SiS648FX chipsets are not intended for high-end market, I expect mainboards on these core-logic products to be inexpensive. As for VIA KT600-based solution, I suggest that this is a mainstream product with appropriate pricing.

No idea about availability timeframe of the products.