insane schrijft: "Ik vond op Heise.de wat interessante benchmarks tussen een Epox KX133 moederbord (K7VA prototype) en de huidige AMD Irongate chipset. Hierin wordt de KX133 genadeloos geslacht door de irongate van AMD. Vooral op geheugen gebied schiet te KX133 te kort".
Hieronder de info uit het Duits vertaald, daaronder de benchmark scores:
VIAs Athlon Chipsatz KX133 approaches the completion. The c't laboratory had opportunity to a first testing on a prototype board K7VA von Epox. With the line-up the close relationship of the KX133 pointed itself to the Apollo Chipsatz: Windows 98 and 2000 identify it as such and install the appropriate drivers. A Athlon 500 and a Athlon 750 ran in the board problem-free, but with the 700-MHz-Version fell it frequently. Since the 700er-Prozessor takes up more performance clearly, a still insufficient current supply could processor-tutors the cause to be. With PC100 and PC133-Speichermodulen the board did not show problems. As diagram cards the Asus V3800 with NVidia TNT2-Ultra-Chip and the Asus V6600 with NVidia GeForce chip was used; both ran with the NVidia driver 3,62 without crashes in the AGP-2X and AGP-4X-Modus. The memory transfer rates of the VIA Chipsatzes were past behind the AMD Irongate, yet those of application bench mark showed practically same performance. With 3D-Grafik however the Epox board supplied partly drastically worse values despite apparent activated AGP-4X-Modus. That could be to due optimized driver to the early chip record revision or not for the Athlon, perhaps also to the early BIOS version. Almost all considerable board manufacturers announced KX133-Platinen for the first quarter 2000. The prototype showed that before the ready for the market one still waits some work for VIA and the board manufacturers. But the VIA chip seems to have sufficient Potenzial, in order to grow up to the first selection for Athlon boards.Alle Messungen: Athlon 750, 128 MByte PC133 CL3, Creative Soundblaster Live, IBM DTTA-371440; NVidia-Treiber 3.62, Windows 98SE; Irongate-Messungen auf Asus K7M, Bios 1209.
Gezien het hier dus niet om een productie moederbord gaat zullen de uiteindelijke KX133 moederborden wel een treetje hoger scoren. Lees meer bij Heise.de.
