Via KT-600

[Chrono_Wanderer]

just looked at the ALi MaGiK1 chip diagram. seems like NB-SB is also a PCI bus.

But hell yea... I remembered my A7A266 sucks shit (even my friend's). Sometimes it doesn't detect the HDD LOL. So yea... I dumped out that A7A266 and got the A7S333. Boy. 100 dollars cheaper that the A7A266. Performance is better, the CPU runs cooler for some reason, etc etc... AND FOR A CHEAPER PRICE!

SiS745 rocks

Tho it won't hurt to add more features to it.

Would be sweet to see a SiS K8 w/SATA, PCI Express, 1394.



I am dreaming too much hahaha

[GNEP]

I had an ECS K7AMA mobo based on the ALi Magik 1 chipset once... it was, er, "OK" at best... stable enough as long as not too much was asked of it. BIOS updates to that mobo dried up v. quickly though so I guess sales weren't outstanding...

More than happy with SiS nowadays.

[Elie]

Funky, where are you located in Canada?

I'm in Richmond Hill Ontario, you?

[Jkun]

C't tests several KT600 boards!

"During measurements of PCI-Performance, the new VIA Southbridge VT8237 was a positive surprise. In the read/write test with the solid state HD RocketDrive read and write speed on the Epox 8KRA2 and the MSI K6 Delta was over 110MB/sec. The Asus A7V600 however had a significantly lower transfer rate as the other KT600 boards... The nForce2 showed its now well known bad write transfer rate of lower than 20MB/sec on the RocketDrive and 50MB/sec on Gigabitlan. It doesn't have a general write weakness but under circumstances breaks down considerably.
[...]
All tested boards showed that the IDE channels are separate from the PCI bus and are connected directly to the faster bus connecting the south and northbridge
[...]
The SIS748 chipset on the Asrock K7S8XE only managed PCI read speeds of 89MB/sec and write speed of 70MB/sec.
[...]
Summary:... VIA's new southbridge VT8237 with integrated SATA and raid not only offers more than the nForce2, but also outperforms it on PCI performance....The built-in RAID provides speed advantage over PCI-connected alternatives."

The article however also states that the nForce boards better exploit the raw CPU power than the VIA boards, winning most of the benchmarks with considerable lead. Just not the PCI benchmarks :-)

SiS ended last in this test. But this may have been the boards fault (Asrock) since the KT600 Asus board also showed bad PCI performance, but MSI and EPOX shined.


The times, they are a-changing...?

J-kun

[Belwarrior]

Jkun can we have the link to the article (C't Tests)?

[Jkun]

Sorry, no link. This is a paper edition only. German too. I could scan and upload to someplace if you can read German.

Add to post above: the tested Gigabyte KT600 board also performed crappy on PCI! So it's either Epox or MSI if you want any decent performance from KT600.

J-kun