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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (155180)	1/13/2002 2:05:16 PM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

People said the same thing about VIA's KT266A chipset and it gave a 10% performance boost. I know the 1st stab with the KT266 was poor but it didn't have the tweeks to make V-Link work properly like the KT266A did. via.com.tw via.com.tw www6.tomshardware.com We'll just have to wait and see whether the gains are there.

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (155180)	1/18/2002 5:35:23 PM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<font color=red>Wanna XP333 reviewed pcstats.com wanna wroteActually, that enforces my point. VIA is spinning all these chipsets, but it's doubtful that any of them will actually improve performance. The KT333 is just like the KT266A, but it improves memory bandwidth to allow for PC2700 memory. Of course, without improving front side bus bandwidth, there is a memory bottleneck, and performance will probably not improve. The link that you offered talks about the KT333A, which seems to already appear on VIAs short term roadmap, and the only difference compared to the KT333 will be the V-Link interface. However, since V-Link is already at 266MB/s, that is more than enough to interface to PCI, USB, IDE, and other slow interfaces. Therefore, the KT333A isn't likely to improve performance very much, either. It seems that VIA is still content to launch these, though. Perhaps they think that people will continue upgrading their motherboards with new chipsets, and contribute to VIA's bottom line. I'm sure it will be a rude awakening when people realize that marketing has taken over VIA's design teams, and now there are several superfluous chipsets in between each one that actually offers features that can improve performance or functionality. wbmw siliconinvestor.com 8 to 14% increase in performance. I'd call that much better then you expected. This will really put AMD back in the lead. M.