Introduction
SiS has always been stronger at making Pentium 4 chipsets and this was obvious with their highly successful 645DX and 648 chipsets. On the AMD Socket-A front, SiS has showed that it's possible to build low-cost chipsets when they first introduced the one chip solution, which is the 735 chipset. However, their subsequent SiS 745 and 746 chipsets were less than successful and only a handful of motherboard vendors adopted the chipsets into their Socket-A motherboard line-up.
Now, having unsuccessful chipsets is hardly an excuse for SiS to stop concentrating in their Socket-A solutions. In fact, that didn't stop their development of the newly introduced SiS 746FX chipset. Today, we'll look at their new 746FX Socket-A solution which is built to support the latest AMD Athlon XP processors and AGP 8X graphics.
Before we go on further, let's look at the specifications of the chipset below :-
SiS 746FX Chipset Technical Specifications
| Processor Support |
- Socket A for AMD Athlon XP / Duron processors
- AMD Athlon Processors up to 1.4GHz
- AMD Athlon XP Processors 1600+ to 3000+ or higher
- AMD Duron Processors up to 1.3GHz or higher
- Supports processors at 266 / 333MHz front side bus
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| Chipset |
- SiS 746FX Northbridge
- Supports AMD Athlon XP processors at up to 333MHz FSB
- Supports high performance unbuffered DDR266/ DDR333 / DDR400 memory
- Supports up to three DIMM slots with a maximum of 1GB per DIMM
- Supports AGP 4x/8x interface at 0.8V or 4x at 1.5V
- Supports bi-directional 16-bit data bus with 1GB/s MuTIOL bandwidth
at 533MHz operating frequency
- SIS 963L MuTIOL Medio I/O Chipset
- 2-channel Ultra ATA 133/100/66/33 Bus Master IDE controller
- USB 2.0 controllers (expanded capability for 6 ports)
- Supports AC'97 v2.2 audio codec for 6-channel speaker outputs
- ACPI 1.0b compliant
- Support V.90 HSP Modem
- Supports up to six PCI slots
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