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To: Joe NYC who wrote (22084)	12/10/2000 12:10:24 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

IWILL Review at lost circuits - was this posted yet? This board looks good. The performance of these systems, not to mention the price/performance, is pretty compelling. P3 has an interesting couple of quarters ahead of it. P4 should have moved up to 1.6, not down to 1.3. P4 may look very, very bad when 1.3 P4s are compared to 1.26 Athlons next quarter. An entry level (1.06 GHZ) system using this board has productivity performance comparable to a 1.5GHZ P4. Durons on this platform will embarrass P3s with little effort. This looks like something that can finally move AMD onto the corporate desktop in volume. Sysmark2000 Sysmark2000, as tedious as it is, becomes more and more my favorite tool to evaluate business and content creation performance on a system level. The main reason is that relatively little happens on the screen, thus, the graphics adapter plays a subordinate role, Further, setup and uninstall times are not weighted, meaning that, in fact, only the real work load times are taken into account. The results speak for themselves: Setting Clockspeed Overall Score Internet ContentCreation Office Productivity 10.5 x 100 MHz 1050 MHz 202 197 205 8 x 133 MHz 1066 MHz 215 209 220 Summary With the first DDR mainboard released into the market, Iwill's KA266R is charting unknown territories in terms of performance as well as perception of the general idea behind DDR technology. The board tested here was a preproduction sample based on the B-revision of the ALiMAGiK1 chipset, with known and overtly disclosed compatibility issues. As we have learned, these issues have been resolved in the C revision. The ALiMAGiC1-powered Iwill KA266R clearly distances itself from the currently available mainboards using SDRAM technology, achieving blazing fast performance in all memory dependent applications. A superb implementation of the IDE (UATA/100) interface complements the DDR interface to make the Iwill KA266(R) the currently fastest backbone for any Thunderbird-based system lostcircuits.com Dan