There surely has been no deficit of CPU board versions on the market, that defend DDR SDRAM for the Pentium 4 architecture. Now that Intel has "the gloves off" as well, with their DDR edition of the i845, it is open season for DDR SDRAM measures to ramp in speed and useable chipset offerings from the cares of SiS, VIA and of course Intel themselves.

With rumblings of the DDR400 spec constituting nailed down by the JEDEC commissions and still word of a double Channel DDR SDRAM chipset on Intel's roadmap, we guessed it was high time to pull the trigger on our last SiS645, DDR333 based CPU board overview, this time from our old familiar friend, Abit Computer.Silicon incorporated Systems, known as SiS in the chipset market, was the 1st chipset provider to contribute to market a production that had full defend for the then forthcoming DDR333 standard, now known as "PC2700".

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There was 1 little fly in the ointment still (well OK, maybe a prominent fly), lack of DDR333 compliant DRAM in the market place, at the chip stage from the similar of Micron and some other major semiconductor providers. So, the benificial folks at SiS were sort of similar "a man minus a country". That is to tell, they had the platform nailed down, they only didn't accept official defend for it. Really, we should applaud companies similar SiS for supporting to "Repel" DDR333 into the mainstream.

There will soon be others to come similar VIA, with their P4X333 chipset.Still, a major hurdle has nowly been authorized, that being useable PC2700/DDR333 storage, similsr that which is nowly readily useable from essential engineerings, Micron's sister storage module company.In this Hardware re-accept of the SiS645 chipset, we're coupling 2 products unitedly that were planned for each other, in an attempt to demonstrate you the thoroughly system architecture that was originally intended when SiS published the 645 chipset.