A
motherboard chipset manufactured by
Via. Gives the
advantages of running an
asynchronous memory-to-
CPU bus in an
AMD Athlon platform (meaning that the CPU bus runs at 100
MHz but the memory bus runs at 133 MHz, giving you a 3/4
clock stepping between the memory and CPU buses.) This feature enables an Athlon user the ability to run his or her memory 33% faster than
AMD 751-based Athlon motherboards. Also, the KX133 is the only Athlon chipset (at the
time of this
WU) that supports
AGP 4X, enabling twice the
bandwidth between the memory and supporting
video cards, and also gives a '
fast write' feature which increases the rate at which
textures and
geometry information are sent to the video card.
AMD Athlon motherboards that utilize the KX133 chipset at the
time of this writing:
AsusTek K7V
Abit KA7-100