VIA K8T800 Pro chipset Overview @ The Tech Report

"The trick to the 1GHz HyperTransport link, by the way, is a 5X multiplier on the HyperTransport clock. The HyperTransport link will still show up in the BIOS as a 200MHz "LDT bus" or "front side bus," but the available multipliers won't top out at 4X any longer."
The new K8T800 pro chipset isn't much faster than the K8T800 though does perform better in a few business-oriented benchmarks. Though with how the Athlon64 designed it is more important to find a chipset/motherboard with the support you need than if it is 2fps faster than the competition.

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