MSI KT266A Full Review

[Bozo Galora]

well. i looked ahead 5 pages and didn't see it posted so.................


here

 

[SnowPunk98]

Thanks

 

[Adul]

cool thanks

 

[Tom]

"..stimulated my organism.." :Q

 

[whitelight]

looks like a good board... wish it came in another color besides red.... blue would have been nice.

 

[agnitrate]

I agree. I wanna see some blue pcb I can't wait for a lineup of kt266a boards tested together to find the pros/cons for each. Then I will make my move to the DDR world.

silver

 

[MasterHoss]

I hope I can do it--wait for KT266A with onboard RAID and NO NIC, AC97, or video.....ATA133 support

(anyone know when that'll be??)

 

[Insane3D]

A nice board, but a couple of things bother me. I would rather see a 6 PCI, no AMR/CNR configuration and a 3-phase power solution that seems to be standard on most other motherboards. The 3-Phase power is not really needed, but it's a nice feature none the less. Also, the FSB only going up to 164mhz is kind of disappointing too. I also wonder why MSI used the more uncommon AMI based bios instead of the standard Award one. The extra features like USB 2.0 are nice though..

A knock I have on that review is he is using a very old Sandra version...it doesn't even have the P4/RDRAM scores to compare...

 

[Insane3D]

"I hope I can do it--wait for KT266A with onboard RAID and NO NIC, AC97, or video.....ATA133 support

(anyone know when that'll be??) "

I think the first you will see is the Shuttle AK31 V.4 that will have ATA133 suport and RAID via Highpoint's new chip, but you probably won't see any without the sound..other than the upcoming Abit. I don't understand why it's a big deal though...it's easy to disable...

 

[Bozo Galora]

You want more? You say you want more???