VIA K8T800 PRO: PCI/AGP Lock and 1000 HyperTransport for Athlon 64
by Wesley Fink on May 6, 2004 5:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Gaming Performance
In the gaming area, the K8T800 PRO performs about the same as current K8T800 boards. Gaming performance is generally a bit faster than the MSI K8T Master, but falls a little short of the Asus SK8V, which was our Editor's Choice in the Socket 940 roundup. The SK8V has consistently been at the top of Socket 940 scores, and we suspect that any Asus rework of the SK8V with the PRO chipset would perform about the same.
As seen in past benchmarks, the VIA consistently outperforms the older nForce3-150 chipset on Socket 940. Keep in mind that the nVidia nF3-150 only runs a 600 HyperTransport, and nVidia has also updated their chipset to 1000 HyperTransport in the nForce3-250. When nVidia introduces Dual-Channel boards based on the nF3-250 chipset benchmarks will likely be much closer to VIA's performance.
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bigtoe33 - Thursday, May 6, 2004 - link
Come on guys its the first look at a reference board.Reviews will come with all boards compared etc.The question you should ask is why abit hasn't implemented the lock on the new pro board they just released?
ceefka - Thursday, May 6, 2004 - link
#2 quite rightQuestion: Will Firewire suffer from the fact that it is not on-board? Will anything else suffer from the fact that Firewire will then have to be supported with an additional chip?
To stretch the importance of Firewire for the home-user. I believe that a lot of people own MiniDV camera's in and a year or so most analog videocams will be replaced with digital cams. Most of them work best with Firewire. I haven't seen any models that work explicitly with USB 2.0 so far.
Cygni - Thursday, May 6, 2004 - link
There arent any Socket 940 boards based on the 250 chipset in the open market right now.wicktron - Thursday, May 6, 2004 - link
im disappointed that it wasnt compared against nf3-250 boards.wicktron - Thursday, May 6, 2004 - link
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