Soltek goes for KT333

WE ORIGINALLY SAID Via would introduce its KT 333 chipset today but while it may have changed its mind about the launch date, it seems that Solktek, one of its customers, has ploughed ahead and launched its board based on the chipset.

The boards is called the SL-75DRV5, comes in Soltek's usual garish deep purple style, and supports up to 3GB of DDR 333/266.

The board also features Multiplier Setting, BIOS FSB Setting, BIOS Vcore Setting, AGP and DIMM Voltage Setting. All these nice little features are aimed at the overclocking end of the market.

As we reported for KM266 boards, this board uses Via's VT88233A south bridge that features Ultra ATA support that seems to be popular these days.

The board will come with AGP 4X support since as we said before the KT333 will not have support for AGP 8X. This will be introduced about 6 weeks after KT333's official launch. The board will have five PCI slots,one CNR and four USB ports.

Some performance boost is to be expected from DDR 333 memory but the real boards to watch are those which use the KT333A version.

With the Athlon XP moving to speeds even faster than 2000+ and DDR 333 combination this board might get many supporters. µ