Your impression on the Epox KT600?

[Regs]

Given the Review made by Evan Lieb, the kt600 is just a little lacking in performance quality as the nforce2. Memory timings are a little more relaxed, the lack of a PCI/AGP lock in the bios (VIA's fault), no duel DDR memory channels, and a awkward layout that involves taking the video card out of the AGP slot to add more ram.

With all that stated, the performance differences that Evan Lieb stated would be un-noticed in real world usage.

So the question is, Would you buy the kt600 for its south bridge over the nforce 2? 8 USB 2.0 ports, and most of all the RAID 0, 1, & 0 + 1 arrays via two IDE connectors that is Hot Swap capable.

 

[lane42]

There's already a Bios update, so let's see what that dos for it. If it can
equal or surpass the nforce with 1 stick of ram, thats good. No pci\agp lock is Bad,
imo, real Bad....

 

[Boonesmi]

im looking forward to it being available...
my next mobo will probably be based on the kt600

the msi board looks great also

 

[Cerb]

They don't have to beat the NForce 2...VIA is cheaper.
But SiS 746 is faster (so far anyway, about even w/ NF2 single channel) and the boards are dirt cheap.
Unless VIA does soemthing drastic, I can't see getting a VIA-based board. The high-end is all NVidia, and the low-end has cheap as all hell SiS that's overall better than VIA.
...and while they get the KT600 tweaked right, NF2 boards are dropping in price.