Editing Slot A (section)

== Chipsets==
AMD offered official chipsets for the Slot A CPUs. These are included in the table below.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! Model 
! Code name 
! Released 
! CPU support 
! [[Front-side bus|FSB]]/[[HyperTransport|HT]] (MHz) 
! Southbridge 
! Features / Notes
|-
! AMD-750 chipset
| AMD-751 
| August 1999<ref>{{cite web |title=AMD-750 Chipset Overview |url=http://www.datasheetcatalog.org/datasheet/AdvancedMicroDevices/mXvvyt.pdf |website=AMD |language=en-US |access-date=August 1, 2001}}</ref> 
| [[Athlon]], [[Duron]]&nbsp;([[Slot&nbsp;A]], [[Socket&nbsp;A]]), [[Alpha&nbsp;21264]]{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}} 
| 50 (100MT/s) 
| AMD-756, VIA-VT82C686A 
| align="left" | AGP&nbsp;2×, SDRAM<br />''Irongate'' chipset family; early steppings had issues with AGP&nbsp;2×; drivers often limited support to AGP&nbsp;1×; later fixed with "super bypass" memory access adjustment.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Orozco |first=Silvino |date=December 29, 1999 |title=AMD's Super Bypass - AMD Improves their 750 Chipset |url=http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd,155.html |website=Tom's Hardware |language=en-US |access-date=November 11, 2022}}</ref>
|}

Third-party chipsets includes a large number of [[List_of_VIA_chipsets#Slot_A_and_Socket_A|VIA K-series]] chipsets.

In practice, third-party chipsets were heavily favoured by motherboard manufacturers. Stability problems and compatibility quirks from these chipsets abounded from manufacturers not following chipset designers' guidelines. This caused long-lasting damage to AMD's reputation, despite AMD having nothing to do with the poorly-realised hardware.{{cn|date=August 2023}} A similar incident happened with third-party chipsets for [[Super Socket 7]] CPUs, of which AMD tried to remedy it by putting [[quality assurance]] measures for the Athlon, which used Slot A CPUs. Despite this, however, the aforementioned problems mentioned above still lingered on for quite a while, even for Athlon CPUs.