Finally, the first mainboard based on a "newborn" (and simultaneously - "pseudo-new") SiS645DX chipset has been announced. This chipset was already mentioned a few days ago. As usually, Elitegroup, SiS’s closest partner in this field, distinguished itself.

This mainboard named L4S5A can be hardly called new, because it’s just a new revision (rev. 3.0) of the existing L4S5A on the SiS645 chipset (rev.1.x). The difference of the new version is in a new SiS961B South Bridge (and later – SiS962 with USB 2.0 support) and in the support of Pentium 4 533 MHz processors with a QP-bus which haven’t been released yet.

Other specifications, as well as the appearance of the mainboard haven’t been changed: ATX form-factor, Processor Socket478, 3 PC2700/PC2100/PC1600 DDR SDRAM DIMM (up to 2 Gb PC2700 or up to 3 Gb PC2100/PC1600), 6 PCI, AGP 4x, CNR, ATA-133 (SiS961B South Bridge), 6 USB 1.1 (in the future – USB 2.0), AC’97 sound, optional 10/100 Realtek 8100/B Ethernet controller.