King of the Hill...

[MrPG]

IS the KT266A chipset the current king of the hill? if not what is and whats on the radar that'll de-thrown it?

To me it seems like it'll be the king of the hill for awhile... the nforce board or the new sis chipsets don't seem hold up.

 

[AGodspeed]

To me it seems like it'll be the king of the hill for awhile... the nforce board or the new sis chipsets don't seem hold up.

Which SiS chipset. The 735? That's nearly 5 months old. And anyway, SiS is going to be coming out with a SiS 745 chipset in Q1 next year. So who knows.

As for nForce, it has easily proven to be every bit as fast as any of the KT266A boards (Epox, Shuttle, MSI, etc.). However, I'd wait until we see a nForce retail board tested out by the usual suspects (Anand, Tom, etc.) before we conclude anything that definitive.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

the only thing keeping me interested from a kt266a right now is the nforce. i want to see:
1: if it can oc well
2: is nvidia going to constantly put out drivers like they do with the dets? are we going to see 20% performance gains with these? being fecalicious here, but really, will they put out drivers that will make going with the nforce worth it?
3: any raid boards?

 

[Rand]

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1: if it can oc well
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If AcesHardware's tests are any indication it's not very overclocking friendly at all when using an external AGP graphics card.
It seems the AGP bus on the nForce is very tenuous when it comes to out of sped AGP bus speeds.

 

[Soccerman]

don't forget ALI.. their latest stepping (C0) might not improve memory scores that much, but game scores went through the roof on one review I saw.. I'm eagerly awaiting more reviews to confirm this..