is KT266a worth for upgrade?

[cecilia]

are there a lot of performance increased if I upgrade my kt133a m/b to kt266a m/b? especially in games
is DDR SDRAM much faster than PC133SDRAM?
because even with my 1200 Athlon and GF3Ti 500, I still noticed stutter when playing 3D games (e.g. Giants, FIFA2002, RTCWolfstein)
do you have any idea?

myrig

 

[GraveJoKer]

Man .. Here's the story that I have heard...
KT133A sucked big time...

But talk about KT266A and you have got a world class performer in your hands .. Cutting edge performance .. Lil better that nForce or Sis735.

Don't believe me..

check out the VIA KT-266A Motherboard 3-Way Shootout and check out it's performance with other chipset mobos.

 

[SpeedTester]

<< Man .. Here's the story that I have heard... >>




<< KT133A sucked big time... >>



I dont know where you got your information from but its wrong. I have two 133a boards right now and they run fast and Stable.
Besides that the Benchmark site you posted doesnt compare the 133a and 266a





<< are there a lot of performance increased if I upgrade my kt133a m/b to kt266a m/b? especially in games >>


I believe you could expect a uncrease of 5%-15% (In games) with a 266a and DDR. The memory benchmark will
be lot higher of course. I guess it all depends if you want to spend the extra money or not.
Is your Tbird 200mhz or 266mhz? how much memory do you have?

 

[GraveJoKer]

have you ever looked at any reviews of VIA KT266A vs VIA 133A ...
Get more info before you flame neone!! OK??


look at this

KT266A vs KT133A

Over KT133A, KT266A goes over by 30% .. in cases almost doubles the memory performance ..
In gaming performance also it almost goes over by 15%...

 

[o1die]

Read Toms Hardware Guide review of several kt266a boards that came out today.

 

[Sleater]

Games are largely videocard and CPU dependent.

Upgrading your MoBo from kt133a to kt266a will make a small difference. But not enough, IMO, to justify the expense.

If your games are choppy look at changing your video card drivers. Then look at your display settings and make sure v-sync is not enabled. Also, make sure you don't have 4x FSAA turned on, because that's going to cause a major frame rate hit.

Also, what resolution are you playing at?

Finally, is this a new system or did you just recently upgrade your videocard to the Ti500? If you upgraded your card you need to make sure all the remnants of your old card are gone (especially if the old card was not NVidia). I might recommend a fresh install of Windows and see if the choppyness stops.

 

[SpeedTester]

<< Get more info before you flame neone!! OK?? >>



Whatever dude, Who plays games in 640x480. Like I said Memory benchmarks are going to be alot higher
but real life speed is going to be barely noticable. However if your doing a complete system upgrade there isnt a sense of choosing anything but the 266a and DDR.
I havent even began to flame some ass who doesnt no what he's talking about. Get a clue then come back to argue with me.

I agree to what Sleater said 100%. We need a little more detail from Ceci in order to help her out.

 

[GraveJoKer]

Hmm...
I get what SpeedTester is trying to say...
If you wanna only play games and short on bucks ... then better get a good vid card..

Else go the 266a and DDR path... the only way to go...obviously with a good vid...

More details Plsss

<< cecilia >>

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[Sleater]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I have a MoBo with the kt133 (no a) chipset and a Geforce2 GTS. All my games (RTCW, Max Payne, Alice, Unreal Tournament, etc) run very smoothly. So I can't imagine that your problem is related to the memory bandwidth of the kt133a chipset.

 

[SpeedTester]

<< I get what SpeedTester is trying to say... >>



Yup, I hate to see people spend money on something they might not see a drastic improvement on.
She appears to have a kick butt system so something else must be going on weather it be
old drivers not fully unistalled, Vsync on or some other software related problem.

Sorry if I was a bit hasty, It's been a long day in the IT world.

 

[SpeedTester]

What the hell is going on with these forums, Its slow as hell no and I just had 6 diffrent banners at
the top of my screen. Kinda funny thou to scroll over and not see the Forums.

 

[GraveJoKer]

<< Sorry if I was a bit hasty, It's been a long day in the IT world. >>



Same with me ...
Boss shouting at me in the morning.. for doing something that I hadn't done...
Nasty mornings... huh??

 

[Athlon4all]

I've in a similar situation except, I am on KM133, In other words I don't have a 133fsb. Right now I am using a Duron, on an ECS KM133 board. It lacks in ocing options, and doesn't have 133fsb support, and I am seriously considering Shuttle AK31 rev3.1 and if I overclocked my Duron to 1GHz (prolly 150x6.5 or 7) would there be a big increase in office productivity and Multitasking? That's really all I do is Surfing and etc. I do play the occasional game (mainly will be Star Trek Armada 2) so would KM133 to KT266A be worth it When you figure in the ocing? I think so.......

 

[SpeedTester]

<< Boss shouting at me in the morning.. for doing something that I hadn't done... >>



Yup that always seems to happen after a long weekend.

 

[SpeedTester]

<< Shuttle AK31 rev3.1 and if I overclocked my Duron to 1GHz (prolly 150x6.5 or 7) would there be a big increase in office productivity and Multitasking? >>





For your situation I would say yes. Plus when the time comes you can pop in a XP and fly right along.

 

[Athlon4all]

Thx SpeedTester, now I know what for xmas

 

[DoubleL]

I still like the KT133 boards and I can't see anything that won't run on one, I built a Asus raid and a Epox 8KHA+ with the XP1900's and 512 mags of corsair 2400 cas 2 to see how they run but when I need to work I get on my Asus A7V 1 Gig, with 384 mags of PC133, Rock stable and a old friend, They don't get any more stable than this , Now I don't care what anyone says all the KT133's I have built are still being used and the people never have any problems and they don't want to upgrade either,

 

[cecilia]

Thanks guys for helping me,
My games is not stuttering at all, it just starting stutter when the games using large texture, complex rendering.
example in GIANTS citizen Kabuto, when I set "viewing distance" to minimum in game will run smooth, but if I raise it then frame rate is choppy.
I used to play at 1024x768 32bit
using detonator 21.85
I formatted my hd after installing my GF3Ti 500

 

[Texun]

I went from a 133a to a 266a and it is faster, but I can't say how much of that is due to the board because I also went from a TB900 to the XP1700. I use the GF2 Pro and 512 megs of DDR as opposed to the GF2MX and 512 or SDR memory in the 133a.

As far as performance and stability... it runs great. I had some problems during the first two weeks and was ready to chunk it and get my 133a back, but then found out that I had a bad memory modual. Worked great once I ditched that. I can't say the performance difference would be worth the expense of a new MB and memory if you plan to keep your current cpu, and I believe a 1.2g AMD would have more than enough power to run any game you want. My guess is that there is someting else causing the hangs when your graphics are set to high detail. I agree with the person who suggested you look at your video drivers.

However, if you want to upgrade to a good board and don't mind the price of upgrading your memory along with it, the 266a should do great choice. I wouldn't go back.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Good luck.
R