The 266MHz system bus will also be put on ice until the KX133 inception as well, thus the current 200MHz system bus with its Alpha EV6 bus technology will have to 'suffice'.

All Athlon CPUs feature a total of nine execution pipelines: three for address calculations, three for integer calculations, and three for executing x87 (floating point), 3DNow!™ and MMX™ instructions. The critically acclaimed Athlon FPU's floating point capability is as strong as ever and remains intact in the 800 and chips in by giving gamers what they want- fast frame rates.

Our review unit is almost a replica of the AMD Athlon 750 'evaluation system' that we received earlier this month bar the mainboard. Out with AMD's own "Fester" reference motherboard and in with the Gigabyte GA-7IX. OEMs such as SYS, Inc. that ship SuperG 1-GHz systems also favor that mainboard. The moral of the GA-71X story is "stability & reliability" and as you'd expect, there's no fancy SoftMenu-type Bios for overclockers.