VIA KT266A Motherboard Roundup - January 2002
by Mike Andrawes on January 18, 2002 4:48 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
Performance Analysis
In this section the XP333-R was tested with FSB and memory both set to 133MHz.
Quake III Arena
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226.1Here we can see that all the KT266A boards are very matured already as we are dealing with an intangible 2.6% difference between the fastest and the slowest board. You can also see that the ASUS A7A266-E and the Iwill XP333-R, the two boards with the ALi MaGiK 1 chipset, are a bit slower.
SYSMark 2000
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In SYSMark 2000 the performance gap is even narrower. With just 1.3% between the fastest and the slowest, we can say that the boards perform very close to each other in real world.
Winstone 2002
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Here we finally see some difference. The Winstone 2002 is a more stressful benchmark and it is much more memory intensive than the other benchmarks. Although the boards still compete pretty close to each other, the performance difference is now 6.5%.
You can also see that the ASUS A7A266-E and the Iwill XP333-R jump out a bit and perform faster than the other KT266A boards.
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Anonymous User - Monday, September 29, 2003 - link
How do I get my Engine to Memory clock to run synchronous for my Epox 8kha+ boardxrror - Saturday, August 14, 2021 - link
This was such an exciting time in PC hardware. Intel was still trying to cram Rambus down the industry's throat - and obstinately trying to strong arm the mobo makers and force chipset makers to Rambus licensing. We still had VIA, SiS, ULi, and even nVidia in the chipset market, and with AMD's Athlon line still extraordinarily competitive and Intel in full attack they could no longer just consider AMD as a side-show - this was their leverage against Intel and they had to treat Socket A as premium platform.NegativeROG - Wednesday, June 15, 2022 - link
I still have this board. AND, I invested all of a $10,000 inheritance in Rambus RDRAM. I'm smarter now (I hope). But, you are right about exciting times in the PC space. I navigated away from AMD for a bit, but came back, and will stay forever. Team RED!