Dette 41-siders review gennemgår stort set alle de Socket-754 bundkort på markedet. Både VIA K8T800 og nForce PRO 150 chipsets er inkluderede i testen.
xbit konkluderer stort set det samme ang. chipsets, som den vågne læser på forhånd er klar over:
Well, the outcome of our investigation appeared not so simple. First of all, we can?t answer the question: which chipset for Socket754 platform is the most optimal solution today. even if we take into account that mainboard manufacturers will integrate more onboard controllers to make up for insufficient functionality of the NVIDIA nForce3 150, the products based on it will still suffer from one very serious drawback: slower HyperTransport bus, which serves to connect the chipset to the CPU. As a result this leads to performance drops in the applications, which use the AGP bus a lot. At the same time, VIA K8T800 is free from this drawback, but suffers from another ones, such as low IDE controller performance and synchronous clocking of the processor and AGP/PCI buses, which can theoretically impose certain limitations over the overclocking potential of these boards.
Læs review'et her:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboards/display/s754-roundup.html