PC Perspective has posted a preview on the VIA K8T900 AMD Chipset
The last year has been a tough one on VIA’s chipset department. Delays of their new south bridge and a lack of vendor support for their north bridge chips have left the AMD enthusiast crown on the heads of NVIDIA’s nForce4 chipsets. It wasn’t always like this; when the K8 first made its appearance, the K8T800 and K8T800 Pro chipsets were widely accepted as the best option for an Athlon 64 platform. The nForce3 chipset was the best offering NVIDIA had at the time, and though it wasn’t a bad product, it offered nothing over VIA’s K8 series in terms of performance and VIA had a definite price advantage.VIA K8T900 AMD Chipset Preview
The beginning of the end of VIA’s dominance in the K8 chipset marketplace came with the release of the nForce4 chipsets in October of last year. The NF4 platform brought 1 GHz HyperTransport support, new networking and storage technologies, overclocking support and of course, SLI. Even the fact that VIA announced their K8T890 chipset with PCI Express support before the NF4's arrival couldn’t help them as their south bridge, with all the new features, was continually delayed.
