An Athlon motheboard spec
Got this from Aces - aceshardware.com
"Here goes the highlight:
- Northbridge: AMD-751 Irongate with 200 Mhz EV6 interface speed, 100 Mhz SDRAM, 2X AGP
- Southbridge: AMD-756 Viper with UDMA-66, OHCI USB, APIC, ACPI Power Management
- 5 PCI/2 ISA/1 AGP and 3 DIMM (up to 768 MB PC100 SDRAM)
- 100 Mhz FSB, with DDR to 200 Mhz for the EV6
- 2 IDE, 1 floppy, 2 serial, 1 parellel and 4 USB ports with 1 IR connector
- CPU speed auto-dectection
Also, I learnt from Happy Cat that Microstar also has a micro-ATX version of K7 motherboard in the works, MS-6191. The details on that board are still sketchy at best: 2 DIMM slots with built-in ES1375 sound, and also based on AMD's 750 (i.e. viper + irongate) chipset."
Also, it seems like Mako from Sharkyextreme has come to his senses sharkyextreme.com
"KryoTech Climbs the Mountain
After battling poor delivery schedules from suppliers, CPUs that didn't live up to their performance hype, and the challenges associated with keeping a newly formed high-technology company afloat the past two years, CPU cooling experts KryoTech are about to enjoy a big payoff for all of the challenges they've conquered.
Thanks to the AMD Athlon CPUs rivaling Intel's highest end Pentium III CPUs in both integer and floating point performance at the same clock speeds, KryoTech is seizing upon the opportunity to thermally accelerate the stock 600MHz Athlon into three separate ultra high MHz monster machines.
How fast will the -40 degree Celsius-cooled KryoTech Athlon PCs be you ask? In talking to sources at KryoTech Sharky Extreme is close to this week, we learned that the three KryoTech Athlon PCs will operate at 800, 900, and 1,000MHz (1GHz).
Amazing.
For the first time in the past 15 years, Intel's best and brightest CPUs are being threatened not only with an equivalent performer from a competitor (the AMD Athlon 600), but also with one that offers a massive leap in performance that they likely won't be able to match until the late Summer/Fall of 2000.
KryoTech hopes to ship their first thermally accelerated 800 and 900MHz Athlon PCs sometime in September/October, with the Godzilla-level 1GHz machine rounding out the line by the end of the year." |
