Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/12/via_kt266_tom_and_anands/
VIA KT266: Tom and Anand's turn
Ace's returns to fray
Posted in Hardware Roundup, 12th April 2001 19:40 GMT
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HWRoundup Now for some VIA KT266 news: Tom (http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q2/010409/index.htm) and Anand (http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1451&p=2l) have put the beast through its paces - their benchmarks come out a little different from Ace's Hardware's magisterial review (http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=25000214) a few days ago. In an update, Ace's explains why (http://www.aceshardware.com/#N25000379).
Oh yeah. Intel launched the Celeron II 850 (http://www.intel.com/home/celeron/index.htm?iid=update+010409&)... But aren't Durons cheaper and faster?
At CeBIT there was a lot of talk about coloured PCBs, and Abit walks it like it talks it. The company has launched the KT7E, a coloured budget PCB board. It doesn't have the full 133 FSB feature, it will run the memory at 133 and the CPU at 100. Have a look here (http://www.abit-usa.com/english/product/motherboards/kt7e.htm). We like what this board could do for the Duron - cheap board, cheap chip, high speeds!
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