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ASUS A7V266 C KT266A
"ASUS A7V266 C KT266A review also featuring the JETWAY 663AS Pro. Software used in review was Max Payne, Quake 3 and Serious Sam."
The Asus A7V266 C delivers an optimal balance of performance and features for AMD Athlon/Duron cpu. By leveraging the VIA KT266A chipset with its advanced V-Link architecture and DDR (double data rate) SDRAM memory support, the A7V266-C delivers superior performance for power-intensive applications.
The Asus A7V266 C supports up to 3 GB of high-speed DDR (Double Data Rate) PC2100/PC1600 SDRAM for a peak bandwidth of 2.1 GB/s. The ultra-fast 266 MHz memory bus provides enhanced system performance for intense gaming and multimedia applications. An AGP 4X slot and UltraDMA 133/100/66 interface allow support of the most advanced graphics cards and hard drives. ASUS A7V266-C offers the best-of-breed options available to maximize your system performance.
GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION
| PROCESSOR | AMD ATHLON XP 1700 |
| VIDEO CARD | GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440 |
| NVIDIA DRIVER | DETONATOR v30.82 |
| MOTHERBOARD | ASUS A7V266-C |
| MEMORY | 512MB CRUCIAL PC2100 DDR |
| MOTHERBOARD | JETWAY 663AS PRO |
| MEMORY | 512MB SAMSUNG PC133 SDRAM |
| OPERATING SYSTEM | WINDOWS 98 SE |
| DIRECTX VERSION | v8.1 |
MAX PAYNE640x480
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ASUS A7V266-C JETWAY 663AS PRO |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS Shooting Alex BenchmarkHigh Quality Setting Trilinear Filtering Fogging Enabled Sounds Enabled Task Switching Disabled Triple Screen Buffers Enabled COMMENT "The first game benchmark used for this Asus A7V266-C motherboard review is the excellent game Max Payne. The DDR266 equipped Asus A7V266-C starts off strongly beating the JETWAY 663AS Pro by an impressive 20%, using a slighly higher resolution the Asus A7V266-C can now only manage a 7% performance increase and at the highest resolution tested both motherboards offer the same performance." |
QUAKE 3640x480
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BENCHMARK SETTINGS Four.dm68 Benchmark32Bit Colour Depth Texture Compress Disabled Lightmap Lighting High Geometric Detail Full Texture Detail Trilinear Texture Filtering COMMENT "By just looking at the charts you can clearly see the advantage of DDR266 memory. The Asus A7V266-C offers animpressive 33% performance increase at 640x480, a 31% performance increase at 800x600 and finally a 27% performance increase over the JETWAY 663AS Pro at 1024x768." |
SERIOUS SAM640x480
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BENCHMARK SETTINGS Quality SettingMemphis Suburbs Demo Huge Texture Size Detailed Textures Enabled Huge Shadowmap Size Standard Lens Flare No Wait Vertical Retrace Wide Screen Disabled COMMENT "Unlike in the Quake 3 tests this Serious Sam test has the two motherboards much closer together. The Asus A7V266-C is still able to outperform the JETWAY 663AS Pro by between 4% to 17% which is impressive." |
FINAL RESULT
ASUS A7V266-C JETWAY 663AS PRO |
COMMENT "After adding up all of the benchmark results the Asus A7V266-C finishes 20% faster than the JETWAY 663AS Pro." |
CONCLUSION "The main advantage for the Asus A7V266-C is that it's a very stable, highly optimised and great performing DDR motherboard. The Asus A7V266-C's 20% performance advantage over the JETWAY 663AS Pro equals to an extra 205fps in total which is very impressive!" |
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