| Q: | What is the AMD-760™ MPX chipset?
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| A: | The AMD-760 MPX chipset is AMD’s chipset for the AMD Athlon™ MP processor. It consists of two chips: the AMD-762™ system bus controller, or Northbridge, and the AMD-768™ peripheral bus controller, or Southbridge. The AMD-760 MPX offers an enhanced 66MHz/64- & 32-bit PCI Bus, which provides an improved high-speed peripheral connection and AC-97 audio support. The AMD-760 MPX chipset unleashes the power of Double Data Rate (DDR) memory technology for multi-tasking and multimedia-intensive applications. The AMD-760 MPX chipset supports up to two AMD Athlon MP processors with 266MHz front side buses, as well as AGP-4x graphics. |
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| Q: | How does the AMD-760 MPX chipset differ from the AMD-760™ MP chipset?
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| A: | The AMD-760 MPX chipset features an enhanced 66MHz/64- & 32-bit PCI Bus and a feature-rich Southbridge that offers PCI-to-PCI bridging capability. Together these components provide an improved high-speed peripheral connection. The AMD-760 MPX chipset improves upon the previous AMD-760™ MP chipset, which offers a 33MHz/64- & 32-bit PCI Bus, providing a more powerful solution for workstation and server applications. |
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| Q: | What are the features and benefits of the AMD-762™ Northbridge?
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| A: | The AMD-762™ system bus controller features support for up to two AMD Athlon MP processors using Smart MP technology, up to 4 Gigabytes of DDR memory, and AGP-4x graphics card support. All of these combine to enable multi-tasking and multi-threaded environments. It also features a 266MHz bus for the AMD Athlon MP processor, providing improved scalability for workstation and server applications. |
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| Q: | What are the features and benefits of the AMD-768™ Southbridge? What speed hard drives does it support?
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| A: | The AMD-768™ peripheral bus controller complements the AMD-762 system controller by offering a robust I/O subsystem along with sophisticated system management capability. The AMD-768 Southbridge supports two-channel ATA 100/66/33 hard drives, and offers extended performance with its PCI-to-PCI bridging capability and 66MHz/64-bit PCI Bus. |
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| Q: | What is Smart MP technology?
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| A: | Smart MP technology features dual point-to-point, high-speed system buses, an optimized "MOESI" cache coherency protocol, which manages data and memory traffic, as well as innovative “snoop” buses, which offer high-speed communication between the CPUs in a multiprocessing system. Smart MP technology is designed to optimize the execution of multi-threaded, mission-critical applications. |
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| Q: | Is Socket A supported?
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| A: | Yes. |
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