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Looks like KT333 is set to arrive this week...

>Sis seems to be a better choice if Via doens't solve the PCI latency problem, however, if they do, i will stick with Via

Just to show you how crazy this FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) has gone. According to Anandtech's OWN review of AMD's Athlon XP 2000+ vs Intel's 0.13-micron Northwood by Anand which was made on a KT266A based ASUS A7V266-E with a 1.67GHz (2000+) cpu compared to an ABIT TH7-II RAID (Intel 850) and a P4 2.2GHz which is 500+ Mhz faster and with the Content Creation Performance (which is real world performance) it could only achieve a TIE

Imagine that, the VIA Flaw with the KT266A is so BAD that even with a cpu which is 500 Mhz faster it TIES the i850 in content creation, just take a second and think about this. and Anand says this about SiS "Performance can be improved slightly with DDR333 SDRAM on a SiS 645" ...Slightly.... and that's only on a DDR333 system. and It only affects Burst Speed which has very little effect on performance. Unless you absolutely require 80Mb/s at a sustained transfer rate, for example if you need to copy 100 Gig files repeatedly then it's an non-issue. Anyone who says that they won't buy a KT266A board is being affected by Spin, plain and simple.
 
*sigh* here we go again. I agree totally NicColt. The VIA PCI Bus problems have been blown waaaaaaaayyyyyyy out of porportion and really effect allmost nobody. I agree ST4R. If Asus or Abit makes a 745 board I'll be all for it. Abit's is allready on the way (KS7) and Asus was listed among other big names in OCWorkbench's list of 745 board makers. Truthfully, I see absolutely no point in KT333(A). I doubt VIA is gonna pull a trick out of their hat like they did with KT266A. PC2700 will do nothing on the Athlon platform unless AMD suprises me and many others by making T-Bred a 166fsb CPU. So, we'll see. I just don't see any point in buying these boards over their KT266A counterparts.
 


<< *sigh* here we go again. I agree totally NicColt. The VIA PCI Bus problems have been blown waaaaaaaayyyyyyy out of porportion and really effect allmost nobody. I agree ST4R. If Asus or Abit makes a 745 board I'll be all for it. Abit's is allready on the way (KS7) and Asus was listed among other big names in OCWorkbench's list of 745 board makers. Truthfully, I see absolutely no point in KT333(A). I doubt VIA is gonna pull a trick out of their hat like they did with KT266A. PC2700 will do nothing on the Athlon platform unless AMD suprises me and many others by making T-Bred a 166fsb CPU. So, we'll see. I just don't see any point in buying these boards over their KT266A counterparts. >>



Exactly 🙂

Chiz
 
I hope it's just all hype, I mean these motherboards, what, with changing their features, chipsets, ram needs, ect., just who do they think they are? Video cards?
 
is there any indication amd is going to make the next "gen" athlonXP a 166fsb...I thought it was die shrink t oincrease speed...please tell they are not about to make a major cpu change....

As for the KT333..unless you unlock your cpu I can not see how this is going offer much....
 
Lol, anyone else notice that the ASUS KT333 boards have support for Athlons above 2GHz. Looks like ASUS/VIA is confident that AMD will have 2GHz Athlons soon enough. Cool. 😀
 
This is great news. VIA has done a good job of addressing there stability issues, especialy when it came to the KT266 chipset, I'm running the KT266 right now and if I didient know better I would think it was an Intel machine. I havent had a single problem with stability. KT133 and KT133A were horrible IMO.
 
this may be a dumb question so please forgive me, but if these new boards support 166FSb won't this help in overclocking a tbird/XP etc that are rated for 133fsb?
 


<< this may be a dumb question so please forgive me, but if these new boards support 166FSb won't this help in overclocking a tbird/XP etc that are rated for 133fsb? >>

That's just it. There is no indication that these boards nor chipset will support 166fsb. I totally agree that if a KT333 board had the PCI Dividers, it would be fine, but all indication says no.

<< is there any indication amd is going to make the next "gen" athlonXP a 166fsb...I thought it was die shrink t oincrease speed...please tell they are not about to make a major cpu change.... >>

Again, there is indication that T-Bred (Next Athlon XP) will run at 133fsb.
 
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