NewB schrijft dat de mannen van Overclockers.com een beknopte review hebben gemaakt van het Iwill KA266-R moederbord. Dit plankje is gebaseerd op de MAGIK 1 DDR chipset van ALi en is geschikt voor voor maximaal 3GB aan PC200/266 DDR geheugen. Uit de benchmarks bleek dat de performance niet echt tegenvallend was: een P3 @ 1050MHz werd verslagen door het Athlon @ 956MHz DDR systeem. Vooral in de synthetische SiSoft Sandra tests was het verschil het grootst. De stabiliteit was verder ook dik in orde, en van hoge warmte ontwikkeling was geen sprake. Hieronder heb je een gedeelte:
Rob over at PC Nut will be running more benches over the weekend. We didn't try pushing the CPU beyond 956 MHz due to the lack of V Core settings - the CPU will do in excess of 1100 MHz at 1.85 volts. Looks like Rob will do the pencil thing on the L7 bridges to bump the voltage up.
One thing I found was that, at the speeds we ran, there were no hotspots on the board; the power transistors were barely warm to the touch - same for all other chips. Even the Northbridge heatsink was barely warm. I would still put an active cooler on it except that it is glued on - no mounting holes for something like a Lasagna chip cooler.
There is one item that is very important: The CPU fan header was not able to spin the Delta 38 cfm fan to full speed. This may be an anomaly with this board, but use caution with high wattage fans on these headers.
Overall, the board was very stable - we did not run exhaustive tests, but it handled everything we threw at it. We did find that it would not power off two times, although this is more likely a Windows problem. More benchmarks and endurance testing to come.
Benchmark PIII 700E @ 1050 MHz TBird 750 @ 956 MHz Quake 158.2/147.2 167.3/168.0 3DMark 2000 8386 8458 SiSoft CPU 2388/1406 2998/1331 SiSoft Memory 415/466 560/773
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Helaas is er nog geen prijsinfo bekend, wel zou dit model eind december in de schappen liggen. Check hier de rest van de review voor meer info.
