Apollo VP3

Apollo VP3
CPU supportedPentium
Pentium MMX
Cyrix 6x86
AMD K5
AMD K6
WinChip
Socket supportedSocket 7
Southbridge(s)VT82C586B
Miscellaneous
Release date(s)November 1997
PredecessorApollo VP2
SuccessorApollo MVP3

Apollo VP3 (alias ETEQ 6628) is a x86 based Socket 7 chipset which was manufactured by VIA Technologies[1][2][3][4] and was launched in 1997. On its time Apollo VP3 was a high performance, cost effective, and energy efficient chipset. It offered AGP support for Socket 7 processors which was not supported at that moment by Intel, SiS and ALi chipsets. In November 1997 FIC released motherboard PA-2012, which uses Apollo VP3 and has AGP bus. This was the first Socket 7 motherboard supporting AGP.[5]

  1. ^ http://ftp.build.bg/Drivers/Via/vp3/597.pdf[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Chipset Guide".
  3. ^ "The Chipset Guide". January 1997.
  4. ^ "VIA Apollo VP3 Chipset". Archived from the original on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-05-23. Retrieved 2011-08-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)