Benefits of VIA K8T890
VIA Flex Express Architecture
The unique VIA
Flex Express Architecture has been designed to allow the industry’s most
flexible implementations of core-logic chipsets supporting PCI Express. The
VIA Flex Express architecture allows multiple device configurations, supporting
up to five PCI Express devices across 20 PCI Express lanes with an amazing
combined bandwidth of 5GB/s.
 
Advanced PCI Express Peripheral Support
VIA Flex Express Architecture enables connection of up to 4 high bandwidth
PCI Express x1 peripheral devices directly through the North Bridge of the
K8T890 chipset, ensuring low latency and wide memory access, as well as freeing
up I/O bandwidth in the chipset’s South Bridge, which increasingly deals with
the heavy bandwidth requirements of multiple HDDs, optical drives and USB/1394
devices.
Asynchronous Bus Architecture
The VIA K8T890’s asynchronous bus architecture enables power users to fully
optimize their system settings for the ultimate PC gaming and entertainment
experience, while maintaining platform stability.
Ultra V-Link Bus
Delivering data throughput speeds of up to 1066 MB/s from the VIA VT8237R Plus
South Bridge to the VIA K8T890 North Bridge, the Ultra V-Link interface delivers
the necessary bandwidth and low latency required by today's increasingly demanding
multimedia applications.
VIA Modular Architecture Platform
The VIA K8T890 is part of VIA's unique Modular Architecture Platform (V-MAP),
which minimizes design times and time-to-market for motherboard partners through
a flexible, pin-compatible design approach for VIA core-logic solutions. Motherboard
partners are able to cover multiple market segments with fewer design resources,
and also benefit from a single unified driver base.
Native Serial ATA/RAID Support
The VIA VT8237R Plus South Bridge features a native Serial ATA/RAID controller,
providing direct support for two 150MB/s Serial ATA devices, and an additional
two (for a total of four SATA devices) in combination with the SATAlite™
interface. The integrated V-RAID controller supports native RAID 0, RAID 1,
RAID 0+1 and JBOD, ensuring optimum data integrity and system performance,
while the user-friendly V-RAID software interface enables easy disk array configuration
and management.
VIA Vinyl Multichannel Audio Suite
Delivering rich, warm surround sound at resolutions as high as 24/96 through
up to six or eight-channel outputs, the VIA Vinyl Audio and VIA Vinyl Gold
Audio enable crisp, clear performance, representing the highest levels of audio
quality in a mainstream integrated or onboard solution.
Unified VIA Hyperion 4in1 Drivers
VIA's unified approach to drivers has been established for eight generations
of chipsets, allowing end users to benefit from seamless hardware and software
compatibility. |
