Intel 430VX chipset (Feb 1996) aka Triton II chipset

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By this time, Intel had two titles under their belt with the success of the FX and HX chipsets, however something was missing. The market demanded a chipset to fill the void between the original FX chipset and the much more powerful and more expensive HX chipset, what was to be used in desktop computers for the home or low cost situations?
Answering this cry for help Intel released the VX chipset, commonly referred to as the Triton III which can be quite misleading since it is in no way superior to the Triton II when it comes to performance. The 430VX is plagued by the 64MB cacheable memory limit as well as poor performance as a direct cause of a lack of CPU-to-PCI buffers, something unheard of in the 430HX Chipset. However Intel made up for this by equipping the VX chipset with the ability to support SDRAM, a newer, faster type of DRAM as well as adding support for the Unified Memory Architecture, UMA for short. UMA can be thought of as a sort of pre-AGP which allows your video card to share your system memory with the sacrifice of some performance, about a 5% loss overall. Unfortunately with SDRAM and UMA support the 430VX still cannot compete head to head with the HX chipset nor VIA's line of Apollo chipsets, however it still provides excellent performance for the price.

Intel 82430VX Chipset
Common Name   Triton III
Chipset Packaging   Number of chips   3 (82437VX System Controller, 82438VX, 82371SB)
Packaging Type   2 x 208-pin lead QFP; 1 x 100-pin lead QFP
CPU Support   Number of CPUs   1
AMD CPUs Supported   K5, K6
Cyrix CPUs Supported   6x86 (M1), 6x86MX (M2)
Intel CPUs Supported   Pentium, Pentium MMX
Cache   Type   Pipeline Burst Cache
Maximum Supported Size   512KB
Maximum Cacheable DRAM Area   64MB
Memory   Maximum DRAM Supported   128MB
BEDO DRAM Read Timings (66MHz)   N/A
EDO DRAM Read Timings (66MHz)   6-2-2-2
FPM DRAM Read Timings (66MHz)   6-3-3-3
SDRAM Read Timings (66MHz)   7-1-1-1
Data Path to Memory   64-bits
ECC Support   No
Hard Disk Controller   Chip   PIIX3 (82371SB Controller)
Busmastering Support   Yes
UltraDMA Support   No
Max. Theoretical Transfer Rate   PIO Mode 4/DMA Mode 2 (16.6MB/S)
PCI Interface   Supported PCI Bus Speeds   25, 30, 33 MHz
Concurrent PCI   Yes
Async. PCI Bus Speed   No
PCI Specification   2.0 (66 MHz max.)
Power Management   PC97 Compliance   No
Suspend to Disk   No
HDD Power Down   Yes
Modem Wakeup   No
System Suspend   No
Video   AGP Support   No
Unified Memory Architecture   Yes
Peripheral Support   USB Support   Yes
Plug and Play Port   Yes
Write Buffers   CPU-to-DRAM   16 QWords
CPU-to-PCI   5 DWords
PCI-to-DRAM   18 DWords
Officially Supported Bus Speeds   50, 55, 60, 66 MHz
Unofficially Achieved Bus Speeds   68, 75, 83.3 MHz