Full On 3D heeft een vergelijking gemaakt tussen de Iwill KA266-R en de Gigabyte 7DX. De KA266-R van Iwill heeft de ALi MAGiK 1 DDR chipset meegekregen, de Gigabyte plank doet het met AMD's zelfgebouwde 760 northbridge en de VIA 686B southbridge. Helaas ondervonden de reviewers ook de gevolgen van de bugs die nog aanwezig zijn in deze AMD 760 chipset, aangezien een 133MHz frontside bus op de 7DX garant stond voor lockups en instabiliteitproblemen. Als we de twee vergelijken op performance kwam (vrij onverwacht) de ALi chipset als winnaar uit de bus, zowel in 3D als office applicaties. Harde conclusies kunnen er echter nog niet getrokken worden aangezien beide moederborden nog niet gereed waren voor productie. Hier meer info uit de conclusie:
The Iwill KA266-R is the better board by far. The ALi MAGiK 1 chipset impressed me very much. Iwill has taken it and based a very nice board around it. To be totally honest with you, I would gladly leave this board in my system even though it is still pre-production - it is that good. I really am anticipating the release of the retail board (second week of December). It will be somewhat costly , about $190 for the RAID variant tested here, but in my opinion, it will be worth it (you can save $20 by going with the non-RAID version). ALi has come from nowhere to create a chipset that performs well and, as we have seen here, can be the center of a very nice board. When the Iwill KA266 gets its full voltage control it will be a serious contender amongst the first wave of DDR boards. It isn't often that the first board out of the gates looks like it may be one of the best for awhile. I have to commend Iwill for making a board that is stable, performs well, AND caters to the overclocking community. The only problem I noticed was that there seems to be more of a drop off in performance when the Ali chipset runs at PC1600 vs. the percentage of performance loss when the AMD 761 board run at PC1600. As for the Gigabyte board, it has a ton of potential. If Gigabyte figures out the FSB noise issue, and adds some voltage and multiplier tweaks, they will also have a very nice board. Hopefully they can work out these short-comings and get their board out in a timely manner.