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Hello Jan,
"Is Elvis still alive?" This used to be the most common question asked of us, but lately your biggest question for PCstats seems to be "when is the AMD Athlon64 939 getting PCI Express?" Naturally, if you're a gamer, you want the best CPU and videocard combination available. The K8 and PCI Express are the ideal solution to that problem for many of our Newsletter readers...
To find out the answer to this question, I spoke with a Senior Product Mgr at MSI Computer. It seems as far as the question of the Athlon64 and PCI Express goes, there are three chipsets coming from VIA, SIS and nVidia which will introduce support for PCI Express to the K8.
So as it stands, the upcoming VIA K8T890 chipset for the Athlon64 will support PCI Express and AGP8X videocards, and is expected to arrive around the end of September... if VIA can keep it together. Odds are 50/50 on that. Meanwhile, the SIS 756 chipset is set to hit mass production by mid-September. The SIS756 is probably going to be the first chipset into retail channels to support PCI Express and AGP8X, given that nVidia's next chipset isn't slated to be announced until next month. Expect nVidia's Crush K8-04 solution to arrive under the 'nForce 3' nomenclature. Along with PCI Express and AGP8X support, the CK804 will introduce SLI. If you recall, SLI is a feature which enables the use of two nVidia PCI Express x16 videocards side-by-side on one motherboard. Neither the SIS or VIA chipsets will support SLI, so nVidia will have the corner on that market for the time being.
Thanks for reading,
Max Page
Editor-in-Chief, PCstats.com
Altså at SiS756 skulle gå i masseproduktion midt i september... (det er ca. nu) Og at Via er mere end tæt på at præcentere deres K8T890! nVidia skulle først præcentere deres om ca. en måned!! Se det er helt anden snak!! Det kommer jo bare an på hvem der har ret!