Why is the Ultra V-Link so important?
With the introduction of the VIA VT8237 South Bridge, a new 1 GB/s North/South Bridge interconnect was necessary due the high bandwidth requirements from a host of new features such as Serial/RAID and 8 USB ports. If we have a brief look at a couple of the VT8237’s I/O features we can do the simple math. 2 x 150MB/s Serial/RAID ports and 8 x (average transfer rates) 60MB/s USB2.0 ports working under full load would add up to over 700MB/s. While this kind of loading is unlikely in a real world environment, VIA was careful to design-in plenty of bandwidth headroom for power users. With the introduction early next year of the new VIA VT8239 South Bridge, the Ultra V-Link will become even more crucial for optimized system performance. 6) Can you shed some light on AGP/PCI locks, and dividers? Will these features for overclockers be present in retail boards. Most industry insiders are unaware that VIA first implemented an Asynchronous (AGP/PCI lock) bus architecture as far back as 1998. We
