The Test

There are two contenders that we would have really liked to include in this review but couldn’t.  The new ALi MAGiK1 B0-stepping chipset is performing quite well (although not as well as the KT266A) but Iwill was unable to provide us with a sample board in time for this review.  NVIDIA’s nForce is also ready for action but NVIDIA isn’t quite prepared to let us publish benchmarks yet, it won’t be much longer for that one either.

Windows 2000 Test System

Hardware

CPU(s)

AMD Athlon-C 1.4GHz
Motherboard(s) ASUS A7M266 (AMD760)
ASUS A7V133 (KT133A)
ECS K7S5A (SiS735)
MSI K7T266 Pro (KT266)
VIA KT266A Reference Board (KT266A)
Memory

256MB DDR266 Crucial DDR SDRAM (Micron CAS2)
256MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM (Micron -7E CAS2)

Hard Drive

IBM Deskstar 30GB 75GXP 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/100

CDROM

Phillips 48X

Video Card(s)

NVIDIA GeForce3 64MB DDR

Ethernet

Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter

Software

Operating System

Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 2

Video Drivers

NVIDIA Detonator3 v12.41
VIA 4-in-1 4.32V was used for all VIA based boards w/ IDE drivers 580_3012

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