Albatron announces VIA K8T890 board
By Rodrigo Chia on November 23, 2004 - 1:40 AM Page 1 of 1

Albatron announced its first VIA K8T890 board, the K8X890 Pro, for 939-pin Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX processors. It includes one PCI-E x16 for a VGA card and one PCI-E x4 slot. Albatron also implemented a new type of power supply system on the board. The Power Width Modulation (PWM) module adds a fourth phase to the original three phases of the Voltage Regulator Module (VRM). The K8X890 Pro´s main features are:

  • VIA K8T890 chipset
  • 800 MHz HyperTransport FSB
  • Dual channel DDR400 memory support
  • 4x DIMM sockets (4 GB max.)
  • 1x PCI-E x16 slot
  • 1x PCI-E x4 slot
  • 3x PCI slots
  • 2x Ultra DMA 133 connectors
  • 2x SATA 150 connectors (RAID 0,1)
  • Marvell GbE controller
  • 8 channel audio
  • 8x USB2.0 ports
  • 2x IEEE1394 ports
  • ATX form factor


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