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Posted: February 8, 2001 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Analysis Just yesterday I was at the local store looking at motherboards and noticed that KT133A boards weren’t much more expensive than regular KT133’s. I’m talking like $20 differences here for boards with extra UltraATA 100 RAID built in and the extra speed. Talk about a bargain. The performance we saw above proves that the KT133A is a definite success over the KT133. We see most of the improvements occur in productivity apps that require lots of bandwidth and in games that require the same thing. Are extra features, standard UltraATA 100 and faster FSB worth about $20? I think so. Conclusion Iwill has definitely taken us on one heck of a ride. I don’t think I was disappointed with anything other than that this wasn’t the RAID version of the board I was reviewing hehe. Iwill has definitely made a good impression with their KT133A release and I wouldn’t be surprised if the KK266-R was an equal boom. I definitely can’t wait to get my hands on that one.   Nice profile shots of the KK266. Click for larger view. Currently, there are only a handful of KT133A based boards out there and from the looks of things; Iwill has one of the best packages out there right now. I was looking at Asus’ A7V133 offering yesterday and they seem to be taking some ideas from Abit -- fan on the north bridge. Iwill has definitely produced a winner with the KK266. It’s loaded with features, it’s extremely overclocking friendly, it supports new unreleased CPU’s, and comes packaged to take a beating. From the first moment to the last moment, you’ll definitely have a fun and learning experience with the KK266. The most important thing though, is its performance. It obviously beat our A7V reference platform in every test and if I had the KK266-R on hand, I’d use it for my main machine instantly. For those of you though, that don’t require RAID, those extra IDE channels or simply go instant SCSI, the KK266 is a board I’d lay down my money for. |
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