"Nackdelen är avsaknad av PCI/AGP-lås, något som i princip behövs ifall man ska överklocka. Detta är lite underligt, då ett lås också saknas på moderkortskretsen PT880 till Intel-plattformen. Enligt tillverkarna handlar det om en begränsning i moderkortskretsen, men prioriteras överklockning så pass lågt hos VIA, som trots allt säljer en hel del moderkort i detaljhandeln?"
Saknas detta lås som ni säger?
X-bitlabs hävdar annolunda i sin recension av Asus moderkort baserat på KT880:
"In conclusion I would like to point out one more thing, which will be of interest to overclockers in the first place. Speaking about VIA KT880 as of VIA KT600 + dual-channel memory controller I left out one very important fact. Namely, I have to stress that VIA KT880 has finally acquired the so long-awaited option to clock the AGP/PCI buses asynchronously, which is also known as AGP lock. In other words, now when you want to increase the FSB frequency beyond the nominal values, such as 100/133/166/200MHz, you will also be able to avoid synchronous growth of the AGP and PCI frequencies together with the FSB one, so that they exceeded the nominal 33/66MHz. This way, now it will be much easier to overclock the processors on VIA KT880 based mainboards, because you will not need to keep an eye on the proper functioning of the AGP and PCI devices during overclocking. As a result, VIA KT880 will be at least no worse than NVIDIA nForce2 from the overclocking point of view, because the latter has had the option of asynchronous FSB and AGP/PCI buses clocking from the very beginning."
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/chipsets/display/via-kt880.h...
