iXBT-Hardware heeft een review online gepetst van het Chaintech 6ATA4 moederbord met de VIA Apollo Pro133A chipset. De 6ATA4 doet onder Quake III timedemo's totaal niet onder voor een i820 + SDRAM setup en is voor gamers dus een uitstekend alternatief. Overklokkers zullen ook vrolijk worden van de mogelijkheid om een bussnelheid van 155MHz te gebruiken:
And now let's pass over to practice. To check the overclockability of Chaintech 6ATA4, we tried to overclock Intel Pentium III 500E. The system was equipped with PC133 SDRAM and a graphics card on NVIDIA GeForce 256. When we overclocked this processor in the system with i440BX based mainboard, the maximum we managed to get from the system bus was 133MHz (with the processor running at 667MHz). All our further attempts to increase the FSB frequency ended in failure: the system crashed because of the exceedingly overclocked AGP, which prevented the graphics cards from performing properly. Well, this problem of i440BX, which allows only 1 and 2/3 AGP dividers, has always been well-known. VIA Apollo Pro133A based mainboards, including 6ATA4, use 1/2 to get the AGP frequency from 133MHz FSB and hence guarantee proper operation of this bus. The effect didn't keep us waiting for long: we managed to overclock the CPU up to 155MHz FSB (775MHz).
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