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To: milo_morai who wrote (156214)	1/18/2002 6:38:04 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Milo, Re: "8 to 14% increase in performance. I'd call that much better then you expected." It is more than I expected. VIA seems good at wringing out more performance. They are surely leaving the rest of the chipset world in the dust. Poor nVidia. Their nForce is looking pretty expensive now for the performance it was promised to offer. Re: "This will really put AMD back in the lead." It will ping-pong. Northwood is moving to a faster front side bus in a few months, and dual channel DDR chipsets are apparently going to be available by the end of the year. And the question still remains: when will this KT333 chipset be widely available (and I mean from more than just a couple of sites on Pricewatch)? Edit: It appears I might have been confused by the basis of this chipset. It seems that it is not a KT333 chipset, but rather the ALi KO266 that has somehow been guaranteed to overclock the Athlon front side bus. They use an Athlon XP 1800+ clocked at 1.57GHz with a 166MHz base front side bus clock. "Please note that CPU speed was approx. the same though out all the tests. At 133 MHz FSB, a 11.5 multiplier was used to = 1533 MHz at a 166 MHz FSB, a 9.5 multiplier was used to = 1575 MHz." Since this motherboard seems to be more of a pet overclocking experiment rather than an actual mainstream release, I'm afraid I can't grant you the benefit of miscalling my previous prediction. I had predicted performance of the KT333 chipset to be very small over the KT266A, and this review doesn't seem to prove otherwise. wbmw