VIAs nyeste chipset til AMD processorer, K8T890, kan ikke bruges med AMDs nyeste processor, Athlon 64 X2. VIA er på vej med en ny revision. Desværre hjælper det ikke brugere med bundkort, baseret på K8T890, da disse ikke vil kunne benyttes med Athlon 64 X2.
VIA Technologies on Friday said its latest K8T890 chipset for AMD Athlon 64 processors did not support AMD Athlon 64 X2 chips with two processing engines. The firm did not reveal any further details on the matter and did not explain the reason behind incompatibility, but indicated intention to launch a chipset that supports AMD?s latest chips shortly.
Earlier on Thursday German web-site ComputerBase reported a claim made by ASUSTeK about incompatibility between VIA K8T890 [and the company?s A8V-E-series mainboards] and AMD Athlon 64 X2 processors caused by ?chipset limitation?. Currently ASUS supplies a family of mainboards that can work with AMD Athlon 64 X2 processors marked with a special sticker. Læs mere her: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/chipsets/display/20050603042038.html