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• ↓ [VIA’s Graveyard] Exhuming the VT5329E (PN133 Development Board)
• ↓ [VIA’s Graveyard] Reviving the VT5910A (Early C7-M + Unknown CN900 chipset)
• ↓ [VIA’s Graveyard] Autopsy of the VT5426D (First step to Mini-ITX!)
• ↓ [VIA’s Graveyard] Booting the VT5292A (Apollo PLE133 Reference Board)
• ↓ [VIA’s Graveyard] Resurrecting the VT5182E (Apollo MVP4 Reference Board)
• ↓ Intel Xpress Resurrection: Reviving a Forgotten EISA Beast
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"The next board from the cemetery is the VT5329E, a Socket 370 development board which was probably used to validate the switch between Trident to S3 Integrated graphics in early 2000s. Unlike reference boards, which are intended to serve as the basis for commercial motherboards, development boards are primarily designed for R&D purposes. Its unusual form factor leaves little doubt that the VT5329E is one of them."

"The is significantly larger than a standard motherboard and will not fit in a conventional ATX case. This is confirmed by the unusual placement of the audio jacks, which are aligned with the PCI slots and would prevent the board from being mounted properly. The board has 3x SDRAM, 2x PCI, 1x ISA and 1x AMR slots, and is based on the VT8603 (“Twister”) Northbridge, the first VIA Northbridge to use a S3 integrated chipset instead of the previous Trident IGP."

"Between 1998 and 2002, VIA’s Socket 370 chipset lineup became rather confusing, with numerous renamings and rebrandings over that five-year period. All VIA Socket 370 IGP northbridges internally use the VIA Apollo Pro 133, or Apollo Pro 133A, northbridge combined with a third-party graphics core. As a reminder, the main difference between the Apollo Pro 133 (VT82C693A) and the later Apollo Pro 133A (VT82C694X) is that the latter adds support for AGP 4X. Both supports FSB 66/100/133 and SDRAM PC133."

"All these Northbridge are usually accompanied by the VIA 686A or 686B Southbridge. As an early board, we have a VT82C686A on the VT5329E:"

Key Topics & Focus Areas for x86.fr:

[VIA’s Graveyard] Exhuming the VT5329E (PN133 Development Board)

[VIA’s Graveyard] Reviving the VT5910A (Early C7-M + Unknown CN900 chipset)

[VIA’s Graveyard] Autopsy of the VT5426D (First step to Mini-ITX!)

[VIA’s Graveyard] Booting the VT5292A (Apollo PLE133 Reference Board)

[VIA’s Graveyard] Resurrecting the VT5182E (Apollo MVP4 Reference Board)

Intel Xpress Resurrection: Reviving a Forgotten EISA Beast