ExtremeTech looks at 6 motherboards with the latest VIA chipset for the Athlon XP. They'll recommend what to buy, and reveal an interesting fact from testing: faster DDR400 memory doesn't deliver the best performance. Among the participants are the MSI KT4-Ultra, the Asus A7V8X, Abit AT7 Max2, and boards from Soyo, Shuttle and Gigabyte. On a sidenote Xbitlabs reports that VIA will probably release a A revision (KT400A) that already is in the pipes: If KT400 was expected to be the last Socket A chipset from VIA, they probably do not have anything new to showcase this year. Hence, it is logical for them to update the current version of their product ? VIA KT400. In fact, that is what they do. According to this web-site, Iwill will soon launch three new mainboards for the Socket A platform, one of them will be based on the KT400A chipset. The information is unconfirmed, but looks rather logically.