Via's K8T800PRO is best selling Abit chipset

WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED that the best selling board for Abit UK is actually am AGP board based on Via's K8T800PRO chipset? We are only talking about PCIe graphic and about Nforce 4 or Intel 915, 925, 945 or 955 boards and it turns out that Abit is selling more Via AGP boards than any.

Abit's AV8-3rd eye is the most popular board in the UK, and Abit UK sells loads of them. The Via K8T800 Pro AMD AGP based boards outsold it all. Just for the record, this board costs £73.05 at Scan.co.uk with 3rd eye and £65.76 without it.

The second best selling board is again AGP, the VA20, Via KM400A board, el cheapo one that costs £33.25 only and you can get it here. The third is again a Via based board, KV8-Pro based on the same chipset, the Via K8T800 Pro while in fourth place you can find a SIS motherboard - the SG72 based on the SiS661FX chipset and costing £32.64. This board features VGA on board.

Intel comes at number five with its IS7E2 AGP based Intel 865PE chipset and you can get this board for £46.96, all prices including British VAT.

The first Nvidia and the first of PCIe comes in at the not so great sixth place and this time we are talking about Fatality AN8, NF4 Ultra based motherboard. Nvidia is in place eight and ninth with Nforce 4 standard and Nforce 2 Ultra 400 motherboard, again AGP and again for older socket A CPUs.

Via's K8T800PRO is again at place number seven with the AV8 board and last place goes to Intel 925XE Fatality AA8XE motherboard, this time PCIe based. When you summarise this, you learn that top five selling boards are AGP, that the three top selling boards have the K8T800PRO chipset, only three out of the top ten boards have PCIe interface, and that Abit's seventh to tenth boards are for AMD CPUs while only three can accommodate Intel. µ