Author: Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso
Date: 13:13:19 09/08/01
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On September 08, 2001 at 13:11:55, Roy Eassa wrote: >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? If you have the KT133A then I don't think you should upgrade just now to KT266A (new motherboards are allways expensive). My posts were intended for people who want to buy a new system. KT133A is a fine chipset although you should notice that DDRAM has 2x the bandwidth as SDRAM (well almost 2x) and the new KT266A is simply superb at memory traffic. Please check the link I gave above. Alvaro Cardoso
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