VIA K8T800 Pro - What the Media Are Saying

"K8T800 Pro is currently the chipset to beat." - Tom's Hardware

The VIA K8 Series Chipsets provide market-leading solutions for AMD Athlon™ 64 and Opteron™ processor-based systems, pushing performance of 64-bit capable performance desktop PCs, workstations, and mobile systems to new levels. With a superior combination of performance, feature set, stability, and VIA's innovative technology, the VIA K8 Series Chipsets power award-winning motherboards.

Read on to see why the VIA K8 Series Chipsets are the choice gamers and enthusiasts alike.

Leading the Market

"The K8T800 Pro chipset... is an evolutionary product that will likely be at the heart of scads of Socket 939 motherboards."

"VIA is still in an unshakeable position."

"K8T800 Pro is currently the chipset to beat. Paired with the VT8237R Plus South Bridge, it offers VIA Vinyl 8 channel audio, gigabit Ethernet support, eight USB 2.0 ports plus two Serial ATA ports."

"VIA is established as the leader currently of the generation of boards for the Athlon 64."

Superior Feature Set

"VIA has done an outstanding job of including a full complement of features and VIA chip additions to demonstrate what the K8T800 PRO can do."

"VIA's K8T800 Pro follows in the footsteps of its wildly popular K8T800 chipset, while increasing its repertoire by supporting socket 939 AMD Athlon64 and AthlonFX processors, as well as up to 4GB of regular unbuffered DDR PC3200 memory."

"VIA is delivering a big, juicy gift to overclockers everywhere, whose Athlon 64 overclocking ambitions have been frustrated by motherboards incapable of running at higher bus speeds."

Superior Performance

"The K8T800 tears up most of the gaming benchmarks and the SPEC viewperf faster than its rivals."

"We saw the K8T800 Pro overtake its NVIDIA counterpar... the 64-bit K8T800 [PRO] board always pulled ahead (and in this case, by 90 seconds)."

"The asynchronous AGP and PCI clocks are meant to give more overclocking headroom to enthusiasts, allowing higher bus speeds and better overclocks in general."

Superior Stability

"The K8T800 PRO was completely stable with the most aggressive 2-2-3-6 timings that our Registered ECC memory could support. This performance was achieved without any voltage options at all on the board."

"Showed no stability problems in our stress tests with both banks filled with double-bank DIMMs at stock 400 speed."

"VIA K8T800 was impressively stable... There were no freezes, instability or unexplained crashes during week-long testing. The same cannot be said about the... nForce3... the board would often crash when installing Windows XP Professional."

Ahead of the Competiton

"This time around, VIA still holds the edge over nVIDIA."

"Not many motherboard manufacturers have opted to support the Nforce 3 chipsets from NVIDIA on the Socket 939 platform, most have turned to VIA's New K8T800 Pro chipset to power their newest desktop boards."

"Performance-wise, the K8T800 Pro seems to have the upper hand over the nForce3."

"In terms of chipset features, for the Athlon64, VIA simply has the feature edge."

Gamer's Choice

[H]ard|OCP Ultimate DOOM 3 System

HardOCP chose two motherboards for building an Ultimate DOOM3 System - the ABIT AV8 and ABIT KV8Pro. Both are powered by the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset!

"It's not a coincidence that VIA chipsets power both the motherboards on our HardOCP DOOM 3 Ultimate Systems page."

Enthusiasts' Choice

VIA K8T800 Pro powered board chosen by CNET Labs to power "Dream PC"

Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard - powered by the VIA K8T800 Pro - chosen for the ultimate system.

The Asus A8V Deluxe is "a standard ATX form-factor board that uses VIA's K8T800 Pro chipset. Its "everything but the kitchen sink" features list includes dual-channel memory support, AMD's high-speed HyperTransport bus technology, and four Serial ATA (SATA) channels."

Powering the Best

Motherboards powered by VIA K8 Series Chipsets are award-winning leaders of the market.

ABIT AV8
"ABIT mates the socket 939 technology with the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset. The K8T800 [Pro] chipset is a well rounded solution, offering native support for all socket 939 compliant Athlon64 and AthlonFX CPUs, as well as Dual Channel DDR memory.
- [H]ard|OCP

ABIT KV8
"The ABIT KV8pro... board is pretty impressive on its own. With the K8T800Pro chipset, performance is pushed beyond the SIS755.
- The Inquirer.net

Gigabyte K8VNXP
"Instead of sticking with nVIDIA for the power behind this system, Gigabyte has turned to VIA. The K8T800 is the chipset of choice for mainstream offerings and as ever, the K8VNXP boasts a whole heap of features to make your new system sing.
-PC Plus

MSI K8T Neo2-FIR
"Why is the board so good? Primarily because it incorporates great features with excellent performance."
-VR-Zone Hardware.com

Albatron K8X800 ProII
"The K8X800 Pro II from Albatron is a very feature oriented Athlon64 motherboard built on the VIA K8T800 chipset. Bundled with Gigabit LAN and an incredible 8 channel audio solution, the K8X800 Pro II is almost ready to game right out of the box."
-Club Overclocker.com

OC Prices.com Best Buy Award

ASUS A8V Deluxe
"ASUS chose to meld the proven K8T800 Pro chipset with the newly introduced AMD socket 939 spec in designing the A8V.
-[H]ard|OCP.com

-Scored a 98 at AMDzone.com

-Scored 9/10 on HotHardware's Heat Meter