KT400A SOUND DRIVER

I am not an audiophile and never have been. The rest of the north bridge, including the front-side bus, the AGP port, and the link to the south bridge, is largely unchanged. Before you go writing off the KTA as a non-event, though, listen up: Hence, that is why you see use using synchronous memory and CPU busses in so many of our articles. No Interruptions Day Shortbread.

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Serial ATA in its native state: Voldenuit It's nice of Krogoth ,t400a fill in for Chuckula over the holidays. Created by the same lead engineer who designed the KTA, this new chipset is intended as an nForce2 killer.

The first thing that will be important to many of you is that this southbridge natively supports two channels of Serial ATA.

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LG HU85L projector needs but two inches to cast a 90" picture. Its second-revision chipsets, like KTA and KTA, have traditionally been notable improvements over the first revs.

Dell returns to the stock market after six years. The nForce2 Ultra 's dual channel memory controller theoretically offers double the memory bandwidth of a single-channel design, but that doesn't mean that the chipset has as much of an advantage over the KTA as one might expect.

VIA's KT400A chipset

Combine that with the very wide Ultra V-Link connection to the northbridge and we might see some real performance from our SATA drives that are now just starting to show up in North America. Despite offering two channels of DDR memory and a host of compelling features, nForce's performance wasn't anything to write home about, and motherboard buyers looked elsewhere.

It's nice of Krogoth to fill in for Chuckula over the holidays. Neutronbeam Zak, you know you can't validate any of the above details without first throwing I am not an audiophile and never have been.

While many of us expected a dual channel memory controller on the KTA, VIA has elected to stick with the single channel bit configuration, hence the trademark name "FastStream64" noted above.

The key difference between the KTA and nForce2 Ultra chipsets, at least as far as performance goes, is single versus dual-channel memory.

Via Introduces KT400A Chipset

Hence, that is why you see use using synchronous memory and CPU busses in so many of our articles. Customize The Tech Report No Interruptions Day Shortbread.

Like the KTA, the will be pin-compatible with its predecessor, so you can expect to see current KT motherboards arriving in new incarnations, first the with KTA north bridge, and then with the south bridge. Before you go writing off the KTA as a non-event, though, listen up: This is what the VIA white paper states: Here are the supported specs shown from the white paper as well: That importance is that it has a new memory controller. The extra bandwidth will be useful, because the will support as many as eight USB 2.

The KTA can supposedly perform just as well without the extra expense and trouble of a second memory channel. You can be for sure that this shares some technology with their Envy24HT sound chip that recently won awards at MacWorld for Best in Show.

MondayMarch 10, Where does it get you compared to DDR? VIA's marketing department celebrated this revamped memory controller by christening it with a new marketing name: The nForce2 chipset's parade of advantages continues with the MCP-T's stunning list of south bridge features.

Audio enthusiasts looking for high quality sound will definitely want to upgrade to a discrete bit audio card, but the majority of gamers and casual listeners will probably be quite happy with what they hear from both boards. Our review of the KTA chipset shows that its single-channel memory controller is capable of delivering even more bandwidth than the original nForce2's dual-channel controller in SiSoft Sandra's memory bandwidth tests.

Both boards support analog 6-channel audio and digital input and output ports, but they do so with different audio zound and codec configurations.

Neutronbeam Zak, you know you can't validate any of the above details without first throwing Steam names the best-selling games of When it comes to sound solutions, the guys at TechReport have been doing the best job when it comes to subjective reporting on sound technologies so I would suggest looking to ot400a when this technology hits the market.