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Benchmarks
Continued
Sysmark2000
now seems to be pretty much limited by the hard
disk drive. The difference of the overclocked
KK266plus isn't really far but this time around,
a small difference could mean a good amount of
time. While I did not really record exact times,
the KK266plus running at 164MHz fsb ran benchmarks
that are not too hard drive dependent faster.
Same
here...same performance at the same settings.
Final
Words
The
KK266plus is definitely another winner. Iwill
maintained the same level or even improved the
overclockability and stability of the motherboard
and made it even better. Again, the primary selling
point of the KK266plus series is the onboard sound
because it is that which really makes the KK266
and KK266plus different from one another. Buying
a KK266plus to replace your KK266 isn't really
a good idea since the offer the same performance
at the most tweaked settings. If you already have
a good sound card, there's no more reason to go
for the KK266plus unless you want to use the onboard
sound chip. Onboard sound is now better than ever
and being able to make a cheap but great system
is now so easy. For a low price, you get a highly-overclockable
KT133A motherboard, RAID (for KK266plus-R) and
even a kickass onboard hardware sound solution.
The
only drawback here is the same level of performance
with the KK266. It would've really be nice if
the KK266plus performed significantly faster than
the KK266 at their same most tweaked settings.
It would also be fun if Iwill totally eliminated
the jumpers on the motherboard in place of a totally
jumperless setup. The layout's only drawback was
the placement of the power connector but that's
just something very minor.
Now
the question is: Is it still worth buying a KT133A
when the DDR boards are already out? If you're
starting from an old system and would want to
re-use old PC133 memory, then a KT133A is definetely
an option but if you're starting from scratch,
it would be better to go DDR though not yet because
we've yet to see the other DDR chipsets that are
coming out and possibly from all of them, decide
which one to get.
Take
me home |
