When the K8T890 chipset was announced last summer, we had high hopes for VIA's entry into the PCI-E realm. Had the timing been right, they would have been the first out of the gates with a PCI-E solution for Athlon64 CPU's.

Unfortunately, things didn't quite work out that way. Thanks to its architecture, we are going to see a flood of low end Socket 939's being released with this Northbridge, pairing it up with a Southbridge that was originally introduced for Socket A motherboards. Last week we reviewed one from Soltek, this week we're looking at Gigabyte's solution, which carries an MSRP of just $83