MSI KT4 ULTRA-BSR (VIA KT400).

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The KT4 ULTRA-BSR is MSI's new forerunner to support the AMD Athlon silicon with current Thoroughbred support and future silicon's along with being backward compatible with the AMD Duron family of processors. MSI also once again taking the forefront of a new chipset and this time around MSI have implemented the new offering using the VIA KT400 ,however this mainboard is not just about this chipset MSI have taken full potential of the VIA KT400 and a new VT8235 Southbridge to the limits. Many enthusiast will be looking for the performance but we think when all is done you will see not just a bright colored red mainboard sporting a new chipset. Moreover that you will see an approach that may become totally unrivalled and just about every option to suit many different environments.

Briefing : Via KT400 and a new South


Via's new KT400 on paper looks to be what should of been in the previous KT333 design ,we know for a fact that the KT333 offered very little or any substantial benefits to aid the AMD processor it had the capability of supporting a 166MHz front side bus which many enthusiast and analysis have been craving for some time but simply unless you were overclocking the benefit was never seen .

There are some interesting advances with the new KT400 over the existing KT333 chipset, with an impressive 533MB/s Northbridge vlink to the Southbridge. This is an increase of double over the existing 266MB/s found on the KT333.USB 2.0 is now fully supported and made possible from the new VT8235 Southbridge, however you can also find this particular Southbridge in use with some of the more recent KT333 mainboards and again offering full USB 2.0 support.

One of the recent advances also comes in the light of AGP 8X support currently found available with the new ATI 9700 family of graphic cards and this is one of the major highlights of the new KT400 Northbridge component design. Moreover that the new KT400 is able to offer up to 2.7GB/s of memory bandwidth operation ,however if your think the KT400 has the DDR 400 stigma attached to it think again because it is not fully supported and is clearly non existent from most of the technical data made available on the KT400. Though through the bios of many mainboard manufacturers you can simulate the DDR400 performance though as we will see later the DDR 400 operation actually comes of worse in our tests. So DDR400 looks to be as non starter at this stage.

. Supports AMD Athlon™ XP processors
・ 200/266MHz FSB settings
・ 200/266/333MHz System bus settings
・ Support for AGP 2X/4X/8X
・ Supports up to 4.0GB DDR200/266/333SDRAM
・ 8X V-Link 533MB/s high bandwidth North/South Bridge interconnect
・ Support for Advanced Communications Riser (ACR) Card Standard
・ Integrated 6 channel Surround Sound AC-97 Audio
・ Integrated MC-97 Modem
・ Integrated 10/100 Ethernet MAC
・ Support for ATA 33/66/100/133
・ Support for USB 2.0, 6 USB ports, UHCI compliant
・ Advanced power management capabilities including ACPI/OnNow
・ 664-pin BGA VT8368 North Bridge
・ 487-pin BGA VT8235 South Bridge

 

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