KT880: VIA's dual-channel

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1. November 15, 2003 9:30 AM
   Didou said:
   Isn't it kind if late ? I'm amazed that there is still some development happening on the K7 side of things.Abit has announced its AN7, which is the NFS-7 with the uGuru chip. Only problem is nVidia never released it's MCP with native SATA support so Abit has to go with an add-on chip. SATA is the only edge Via has over nVidia & it doesn't seem like nVidia feels the need to fix that for the nForce.
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2. November 16, 2003 12:44 PM
   TS | Julio said:
   That's one way of seeing it... the other is that Athlon XPs keep selling very well and this is a good indication that AMD has plans to extend the life of the now "low-end" K7 family.
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3. November 16, 2003 1:04 PM
   Didou said:
   I do understand that, but I don't think that it's a smart move on AMD's behalf. I think having the most 64-bit chips out there is the best way to get developpers to take that platform seriously.Which is also why I don't understand their plans to move the AthlonXP ( 32-bit ) to the socket-754 format.
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4. November 17, 2003 1:46 PM
   Per Hansson said:
   [quote][i]Originally posted by Didou [/i]Which is also why I don't understand their plans to move the AthlonXP ( 32-bit ) to the socket-754 format. [/quote] Where did you read this?
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5. November 17, 2003 2:45 PM
   Didou said:
   [IMG]http://www.hardware.fr/medias/photos_news/00/07/IMG00072
   8.gif[/IMG]The Paris & Palermo Core for the desktop are AthlonXP on the Socket-754. The L2 has also been lowered to 256K.[url=http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/200308210
   0723.html]AMD Athlon XP to Migrate to Socket 754[/url]
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6. November 17, 2003 3:08 PM
   Per Hansson said:
   That's crazy, I had not heard that beforeThanks for getting me up to speed Didou!
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