The next step from VIA and how to keep it quiet
 

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The next step for VIA from HEXUS: "The VIA KT600 chipset is a step in the right direction. VIA needed to match NVIDIA on pure specification before they took them on from a performance viewpoint. The 'upgrade' of the Northbridge now sees full XP3200 support and precious little else. The VT8237 Southbridge gets a couple of extra USB2.0 ports and, most notably, provision for on-chip SATA. The SATA feature extends to the ability of effectively adding a coupe of extra ports via an optional SATA physical layer. The memory interface, though, has been left in VIA's preferred single channel mode."