VIA KM400 or KT600

[imported_melanr]

I've got 2 motherboard options for my machine which is going to be newly assembled. Mercury KT600 board and an Aopen KM400 ( MK77M-8XN ) micro atx board. Mercury board hasn't go 6 channel audio where Aopen has. Mercury only got VIA Vt1612a 2 channel audio.

I want to know that will KM 400 be alot slower than the KT600..........I'm going to use seperate radeon 9000 graphics card. Also Mercury got 2 more PCI slots than Aopen. Is KM400 slower or better than KT400?...


I've got AMD 2600+ 333FSB
256DDR 2700 Kingston RAM
80GB HD(not SATA)

I haven't got other mobo options here. Only these two. So what would be the best.........


Thanksss for your replys.............

Melan.

 

[newParadigm]

sell the boards on ebay and by a Shuttle AN35n Ultra, or DFI Ultra INFINITY(I spelled that wrong).

 

[Zepper]

KT600 should give you better performance even with your video card. The only reason I'd go with the KM400 is if you want to use a compact case. KM400 is newer than KT400/A but still not on even par with the KT600.
.bh.

 

[imported_melanr]

But as I was reading some reviews of both these chipsets, I got to know that KM400 performs same as KT400. As you know KT400 defeats its brother KT400A with DDR333 benchmarks, there would be little difference between KT600 vs KM400(KT400+Integrated solutions)............