Leadtek announces WinFast K8 Series Motherboard

By Steve Malone

Posted on 24 Sep 2003 at 12:10

Leadtek Research Inc has claimed a world's first in the announcement of three new motherboards to support the Athlon 64 aimed at the high end gaming and multimedia markets.

Each motherboard is based around the Nvidia nForce 3 chipset. The WinFast K8NW/Pro, for workstation/gaming, and the WinFast K8N FX/Pro for high-end 3D gaming platforms both feature the new AMD 64-bit socket 940 Athlon 64 FX, AGP Pro 8X, and up to 8Gb of RAM. Meanwhile the multimedia targetted WinFast K8N/Pro supports the socket 754 version of the Athlon 64, AGP 8X, and memory up to 3GB.

The new motherboards also have built in support for DDR 400/Dual DDR 400 memory, the IEEE1394 interface, Ultra ATA133 IDE dual channel interfaces, SATA RAID 0/1 and 0+1 interface, Dual 10/100Mbps and Gigabit LAN interface, and USB2.0.

In addition the mobos support Leadtek's X-BIOS II allows user control of voltage, and clock speed, and OTS (Over Temperature Shutdown) which protects the CPU from burnouts. Speed Gear II is for reading over-clocking status in CPU/Memory/AGP/PCI clock, CPU Vcore and ratio.