VIA's KT333: The Athlon gets DDR333

The Motherboards

We had two KT333 boards to test with, VIA's reference KT333 design and Gigabyte's GA-7VRXP. The two performed very close to one another so we decided to use the Gigabyte board in order to test something that would actually be available for purchase in the near future.

VIA's microATX KT333 Reference Board

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Gigabyte's GA-7VRXP KT333 Board

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In order to compare to the competition we chose the ASUS A7V266-E, ASUS A7N266 and ECS K7S5A to represent the KT266A, nForce 420/220-D and SiS 735 chipsets.