VIA Apollo Pro 133/133A Motherboard Roundup - February 2000
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 28, 2000 1:13 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
The Test
|
Test Configuration |
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| Processor(s): |
Intel
Pentium III 733EB (for Slot-1 Motherboards)
Intel FC-PGA Pentium III 550E @ 733MHz (for Socket-370 Motherboards) |
| RAM: |
1
x 128MB Corsair PC133 SDRAM
|
| Hard Drive(s): |
Western Digital 153BA Ultra
ATA 66 7200 RPM
|
| Bus Master Drivers: |
VIA 4-in-1 v4.20 BMIDE Driver
|
| Video Card(s): |
NVIDIA
GeForce 256 SDR
|
| Video Drivers: |
NVIDIA
Detonator 3.76
VIA AGP GART 4.00 |
| Operation System(s): |
Windows
98 SE
|
| Motherboard Revisions: |
ABIT
VA6 Revision 0.5
AOpen MX64 Revision 1.0 ASUS P3V4X Revision 1.02 Elitegroup P6BAP-A+ Revision A Elitegroup P6BAP-Me Revision A Elitegroup P6VAP-Me Revision B EPoX K7XA Revision 0.3 FIC KA-11 Revision 2.2 Gigabyte GA-6VX-4X Revision 1.1 Gigabyte GA-6VX7-4X Revision 1.2 Shuttle AV64 Revision 1.3 Tyan Trinity 400 Revision D |
Performance
We noticed a huge variance in performance among the motherboards in this roundup. The range of performance figures could be due to a number of possibilities, but the most likely is a simple lack of attention to performance optimizations that could be easily accomplished by tweaking the BIOS. Dealing with the VIA chipsets is different than their Intel counterparts, and motherboard manufacturers need to learn how to deal with the intricacies of the chipsets. The performance figures you're about to see are indicative of a lack of attention to performance tweaking on the part of quite a few of the manufacturers.
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