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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Workstation Performance
The K8T800 PRO actually performed a little better in SPECviewperf Workstation Benchmarks than we would have expected. In every benchmark, it outperforms all of the K8T800 boards except the Asus SK8V. In several benchmarks, the PRO and SK8V switch positions as 1 and 2.
VIA has long argued that adding an AGP lock to their chipsets would result in reduced performance. We certainly find no evidence of that here. Either the effect is very minor or VIA has found a way to compensate for any performance loss in other areas.
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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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