New VIA KT266A chipset

[GT98]

Some links:

http://www.viahardware.com/kt266a_1.shtm

http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/chipsets/kt266a/

http://www.amdmb.com/article-display.php?ArticleID=116

I've only breifly went over the article at hardOCP and no mention on how well the SB Live works with it

Scott

[Guru]

Some more!!!

http://accelenation.com/?doc=67

http://www.ocworkbench.com/hardware/via/kt266a/kt266ap1.htm

VIA's Official KT266A Page

[Guru]

VIA Stability and Reliability

VIA Apollo chipsets benefit from the most advanced design, manufacturing and testing processes yielding the industry's most reliable and stable system platforms.

Oh no not another one!

[Nuno]

Despite not liking VIA that much, the performance numbers are impressive. I´ve never seen such a boost with only a chipset change (same cpu, same bus, same memory standard).

I wonder what´s the catch on it, though.

(Bet 10:1 how it will require a patch/new 4.1/bios hacking to get it work with the Sound Blaster Audigy and 50% of the motherboards will have troubles with Radeon 8500 )

What I would really like to see was a revamped AMD 760 with that performance.

[Helevitia]

Reading Nunos p-ost makes me realize why I stick with Asus. I have owned 4 Asus(via chipset) boards now and minimal problems.

Dave

[Novdid]

The others are quite OK to (ABIT, MSI, Epox...) but I'm afraid there is a good point in Nuno's reply.

The two products he mentioned, KT266A+SB Audigy is the biggest threat to nvidia, just let's see if they only work toghether first.

[Guru]

And another http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=1528

[[GDI]Raptor]

VIA KT266A

An a review over at Toms Hardware to:

http://www.tomshardware.com