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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