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ASUS A7V266 C KT266A REVIEW

"ASUS A7V266 C KT266A review also featuring the Jetway 663AS Pro. Software used in review was Max Payne, Quake 3 Arena 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.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Processor: Supports Socket-A AMD Athlon/Duron processors 
• Chipset : VIA VT8366 north bridge with VIA VT8233 south bridge 
  Support AGP 4X
  Support UltraDMA 33/66/100 IDE
• System memory : 2 x DDR DIMM socket support 2GB 2.5V DDR DRAM or
  2x SDRAM DIMM socket support 2GB 3.3V SDR
  DRAM 
• Slot : 1 x AGP Pro slot, 4 x PCI slot, 1xPCI slot /1 ACR slot
• Onboard I/O : 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port, 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port
  1 x Floppy Port (Up to 2.88MB, 3 Mode)
  6 x USB Ports (Support Hot-Plug Function)
  2 x Serial Ports
  1 x Parallel Port ( ECP, EPP Port)
  IrDA TX/RX (SIR)
• Onboard IDE : Dual channel Bus Master IDE ports supported from South
  Bridge 
  Support UltraDMA/33/66/100, PIO Mode 3/4
  ATAPI IDE CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW and LS-120
  Supported
• Onboard Audio : CMI8738 PCI audio chip, Include line-in,line-out (support
  6-channel), microphone-in, Mic-in2, CD-in,AUX-in,MODEM in/out,and HRTF-base
  3D positional audio.
  SPDIF IN/OUT (Option)
• PC Health Monitoring : PC Health Monitoring ASIC Supports the following: 
  FAN sensor x3 : POWER FAN, CPU
  FAN, CHASIS FAN
  Voltage sensor :+5VSB,
  VCORE,+3V, +5V, +12V
  Thermal sensor x3: Environment
  x1, CPUx1 ,other reserve
  ASUS PC Probe Utility Bundled
• Front and Back Panel : Front Panel: use 20-pin panel : power button,
  reset button, SMI lead, keylock, speaker power LED, message LED, IDE LED
  Back panel: PS/2 KB & mouse:
  support KB wake-up
  USB x2, Serial x2, Parallel x1 ,
  Audio x3, Game port 
• ON-Board Connector : 3V, 5V, and 12V 20-pin ATX Power Connector
  USB connector x4 (SUPPORT USB
  Channel 2,3,4,5)
  CHASSIS: chassis intrude
  FAN: CPU, POWER,CHASSIS FAN
  4-pin DIP Switch: easy to
  select CPU bus frequency
• BIOS : 2Mb Flash EEPROM (LPC interface)
  Award BIOS with Enhanced ACPI, DMI, Green, PnP Features Plus
  Trend Chip Away Virus (TCAV )
• Special Features : Wakeup on Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RTC Timer
  Restart/Off Setup of AC Recovery from
  Power Failure
  DDR/SDR auto-detection support
• Board Size : ATX Form Factor: 12” x 9.6”

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR	AMD ATHLON XP 1700
VIDEO CARD	GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX440
NVIDIA DRIVER	DETONATOR v30.82
MOTHERBOARD	ASUS A7V266-C KT266A
MEMORY	512MB CRUCIAL PC2100 DDR
MOTHERBOARD	JETWAY 663AS PRO KT133
MEMORY	512MB SAMSUNG PC133 SDRAM
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS 98 SE
DIRECTX VERSION	v8.1

MAX PAYNE

640x480

	116
	93

800x600

	97
	91

1024x768

	68
	68

ASUS A7V266-C JETWAY 663AS PRO

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Shooting Alex Benchmark
High 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 III ARENA

640x480

	171
	116

800x600

	167
	116

1024x768

	144
	112

ASUS A7V266-C JETWAY 663AS PRO

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Four.dm68 Benchmark
32Bit 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 SAM

640x480

	117
	98

800x600

	110
	94

1024x768

	77
	74

ASUS A7V266-C JETWAY 663AS PRO

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Quality Setting
Memphis 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 Arena 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

	1067
	862

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!"