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Socket-A VIA KT133 Motherboard Roundup

Introduction VIA and AMD have formed an extremely strong relationship over the past few years. Dating back to VIA’s strong support for the Socket-7 and later the Super7 markets, VIA has been a tremendous help in recent times as well. With no intentions of becoming a chipset manufacturer, nor the resources to do so in addition to maintaining a successful processor line, AMD has devoted their… → Read More

ALi in 2001: DDR SDRAM for all

ALi has been very quiet for the past year. Between Intel’s 815 and the VIA Apollo Pro 133A covering the Slot-1/Socket-370 end and VIA’s KX/KT133 providing Athlon users with a desirable solution, the ALi we were used to seeing around had all but disappeared. A lot of people have almost forgotten about the existence of ALi, especially newcomers to the hardware enthusiast community. However ALi is… → Read More

Motherboards in 2001 Preview: Part 2

Yesterday we brought you the first part of our Motherboards in 2001 Preview. That article covered upcoming motherboards from ABIT, AOpen, Chaintech, EPoX, and FIC. With Part 2, we've got full coverage of Gigabyte, Microstar, Shuttle, and Transcend plus a wrap up when all is said and done. Unfortunately, we were unable to visit companies like ASUS, Iwill, Supermicro, Soyo, or Tyan while at Comdex… → Read More

Motherboards in 2001 Preview: Part 1

Introduction For years, Comdex in Las Vegas has been a trade show where just about every company in the computer industry demonstrates their new products and presents their new roadmaps. Most of the time it is an indication of what users can expect from those companies over the coming year, at least until the next big trade show, Computex in Taipei, comes along. Over the past two weeks, we’ve… → Read More

FIC AZ11E Socket-A KT133 (686B) ATX

The VIA KT133 chipset has supported the AMD Thunderbird and Duron series of processors since their launch a little more than 4 months ago. It has been doing a fine job of delivering the power of those processors. At the same time, AMD has been working on their 760 chipset. Four months later, AMD finally revealed the chipset, which features support for DDR SDRAM and "266MHz" FSB processors.… → Read More

EPoX EP-8KTA2 Socket-A KT133 (686B) ATX

The VIA KT133 chipset has helped AMD in support their Socket-A series of processors since their launch about five months ago. Back in August, during our KT133 roundup, the ASUS A7V and the ABIT KT7 stood out from the pack of eleven boards thanks to their ability to change the multiplier ratios of the processors, Ultra ATA 100 support, and rock solid performances. We're just now starting to see… → Read More

Chaintech CT-7AIV2 Socket-A KT133 microATX

Chaintech is a motherboard manufacturer not known by many. This, however, does not mean their motherboard solutions are not up to par with some of the bigger companies like ABIT, ASUS, and Microstar. They are growing and constantly delivering quality motherboards such as the CT-6BTM and the CT-6AIA. The company’s main focus has been on quality and stability, items that are demonstrated in most… → Read More

ABIT SA6R Socket-370 i815E + RAID ATX

Released in June, the Intel i815/i815E chipsets was intended to take over the 440BX and i820 market. The i815/i815E chipsets officially support processors and memory running at 133MHz, unlike the 440BX that required overclocking the AGP bus in order to run your memory and CPU at 133 MHz. Further, the 440BX chipset does not support Ultra ATA 66/100 (without an external controller), while the… → Read More

ABIT SE6 Socket-370 i815E ATX

Introduction By now, most people within the AnandTech community have heard of ABIT and their motherboards. They have been in the motherboard market since 1989 and have generally focused on the overclocking community. While this is a fairly small group compared to the OEM market, it does represent a large portion of AnandTech readers. During their first few years, their products were not very… → Read More

Microstar K7T Pro2 KT133 Socket-A ATX

Introduction If you compare the rate companies push out new products now to that of a year ago, you will be amazed at how much faster it is now. In the processor market, Intel and AMD release faster chips nearly every month, and in the video card market, NVIDIA has stuck to a 6-month product cycle to make sure they have the fastest video card. With processors and video cards improving every day,… → Read More

Soyo SY-K7VTA KT133 Socket-A ATX (Production)

Four months ago, VIA released the KT133 chipset, which fully support AMD Socket-A processors, including the Thunderbirds and Durons. With the successes of the AMD processors and the chipset, almost all companies released aKT133 solution. Among the first wave of KT133 motherboards, the ASUS A7V and the ABIT KT7, with their abilities to change the multiplier ratios of the processors, clearly… → Read More

Chaintech CT-6OJV2 Socket-370 i815E ATX

Introduction About two years ago, Intel released the 440BX chipset for their processors running at 100MHz with everything people could possibly ask for. The 440BX was the standard by which other chipsets were measured and has survived a lot longer than originally expected. That’s because last year, Intel released the i820 chipset, which backfired severely for them. The extremely high price of… → Read More

Iwill WO2-R Socket 370 i815E + RAID ATX

Around this time last year, we were very busy running benchmarks on different BX boards. Most motherboard manufacturers were trying to push out their "last" series of BX boards before the long overdue i820 chipset. We put "last" in quotes because the i820 chipset wasn't out for long before it became clear that the 440BX chipset still had quite a bit of life left. This summer marked the release… → Read More

Transcend TS-ASL3 Socket-370 i815E ATX

Introduction Since 1988, Transcend has primarily focused on memory production and has become one of the largest memory manufacturers, producing more than 2000 types of memory. Ten years later, they decided to enter the motherboard market as well. Since then, they have produced quite a number of motherboards for both Intel and AMD systems. Compared to most other companies, Transcend is really… → Read More

Microstar K7T Master Socket-A KT133 ATX

Microstar pushes their motherboards to their limits, and the result are clear. Their BX Master, based on the 440BX chipset, earned our AnandTech Editor’s Choice Gold Award in January. The same board was also the first runner up in our 440BX 133MHz Motherboard Roundup in June. They were also the first with a stable Dual VIA Apollo Pro 133A board, the 694D Pro. Next came the Microstar K7T Pro in… → Read More

Iwill KV200-R Socket-A KT133 ATX

In spite of their fairly popular Aladdin V based XA-100 motherboard, Iwill has been pretty faithful to producing Intel boards. The company has been unusually absent from the Athlon motherboard scene as of late. They did not release any motherboards using the AMD 750 (Irongate) chipset nor a single board using the VIA KX133 chipset. However, that has all changed. As we noted in our Computex 2000… → Read More

Soyo SY-K7VTA Socket-A KT133 ATX

Soyo has been around for 15 years, but they have just recently become known among hardware enthusiasts. The release of their SY-6BA+III and SY-6BA+IV motherboards running the Intel 440BX chipset last year really helped to put Soyo on the map. Now, the stability and performance of these boards is well known. The Athlon series of processors from AMD helped to capture a considerable amount of CPU… → Read More