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Subject: Re: KT266A - Good news for chess engines

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 10:11:55 09/08/01

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On September 08, 2001 at 10:21:10, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:

>On September 07, 2001 at 19:07:09, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>On September 07, 2001 at 15:07:22, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:
>>
>>>Finally VIA delivered an excelent chipset for the Athlon wich features some
>>>enhancements compared to the KT266. The memory latency/bandwidth is very good.
>>>Also there is NVIDIA’s nForce-420 which offers twice the amount of memory
>>>bandwidth as the KT266A.
>>>This is good news for
>>>
>>>http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=1528
>>>
>>
>>How does this chipset differ from the KT133A?
>
>The 'old' KT133A only uses SDRAM, the new KT266A uses DDRAM.
>KT266A also has ATA/100 for new HDs.
>The memory controller is much much more efficient than the previous KT266 and
>naturally even more efficient than KT133A.
>Check out the article at www.anandtech.com, you will see comparative benchmarks
>with other chipsets including the KT133A.
>


The motherboard I have uses the KT133A, and it does indeed have ATA/100.  I
wanted to use PC-133 memory and not DDR memory because this way I can swap DIMMs
back & forth between my PC and my Mac.  So I guess the KT133A is the best I
could get, right?



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