VIA KT266 Socket-A DDR Chipset: Third time's a charm?

Expendable continues to reinforce the benchmarks we have seen thus far; the KT266 is what the ALi MAGiK1 should have been, although it is still not able to offer the performance of the AMD 760.

Expendable, being a relatively old game, is not taxing our test bed's GeForce2 Ultra much at all thus allowing the game's performance to be more limited by memory bandwidth, latency and CPU performance.  Since the CPU is held constant, and only the chipset and FSB are adjusted, the performance difference between the KT266 and the AMD 760 at 7% is expected. 

More current titles will show a smaller gap simply because other limitations will come into play, most likely video card related.