13 Board Nforce/Via 266a Shootout at Tom's Hardware

[romanji]

I was just looking at a good review at Tomshardware.com which has 13 boards including Via kt266a and Nforce boards. Check it out.

 

[TuffGuy]

linky

 

[romanji]

thanks Tuffguy

 

[Poontos]

Gotta love me Epox!

 

[Emo]

Hah! That review is so inaccurate. They state that the Shuttle AK31 only supports up to 133MHz bus speed. I bet they also left the Shuttle memory settings by SPD. Don't these people read other sites' reviews??

 

[Poontos]

Yah, and where the hell can I get a Soltek? Sorry I do not live in Germany!

 

[jcmkk]

Yeah they reported the MSI board as only being able to go to 133MHz FSB too. I think they just use the performance settings instead of manually tweaking the board. Whichever board has the most agressive performance settings is the one that is most likely to win.

 

[novon]

Woohoo! The Soyo won, cool.

 

[chizow]

LoL T*m's....another load of crock...still waiting for a competent site to do a roundup....Anand what's taking so long???

Here's my favorite quote from the article...for MPEG-4 Encoding (note that almost all the KT266A boards performed within .25-.50 fps of the nForce boards):

Again, both nForce boards have pummeled their KT266A challengers

Chiz

 

[Viki]

Novon: Hehe The Soltek won :-]

 

[jaeger66]

Damn, worse than usual for Tom's. It would take me an hour to point out all the errors...simply useless.

 

[chizow]

<< Damn, worse than usual for Tom's. It would take me an hour to point out all the errors...simply useless. >>



Lmao, yah I'm surprised T*m's Hardboys managed to play with 13 Athlon systems without having their heatsink fan fall off and their XP's going up in flames. Funny how they throw in a KT266 system, but no P4 at the same clock as a "reference" system.

Chiz

 

[GraveJoKer]

And I think they are lacking a couple of the newer VIA KT266A boards like one from ECS etc...
Right??

 

[jaeger66]

<< newer VIA KT266A boards like one from ECS etc... >>


Don't they sell those at Toys-R-Us?

 

[latenitec1]

<< Damn, worse than usual for Tom's. It would take me an hour to point out all the errors...simply useless. >>

I also have to agree. It's sad, this used to be a good site for solid information, with well written reviews. This could
be a good review if someone would take a couple of hours and think about what they are trying to say before publishing it.

 

[AA0]

Shuttle and MSIs settings look to be proper, on every review around the web they come in under epox's board. I noticed they said 2 things untrue about my board too, looks like when they listed the features someone wasn't paying attention.