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ASUS A7V266 C KT266A

ASUS A7V266 C

"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 PAYNE

640x480

ASUS A7V266-C116
JETWAY 663AS PRO93

800x600

ASUS A7V266-C97
JETWAY 663AS PRO91

1024x768

ASUS A7V266-C68
JETWAY 663AS PRO68

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 3

640x480

ASUS A7V266-C171
JETWAY 663AS PRO116

800x600

ASUS A7V266-C167
JETWAY 663AS PRO116

1024x768

ASUS A7V266-C144
JETWAY 663AS PRO112

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

ASUS A7V266-C117
JETWAY 663AS PRO98

800x600

ASUS A7V266-C110
JETWAY 663AS PRO94

1024x768

ASUS A7V266-C77
JETWAY 663AS PRO74

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 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-C1067
JETWAY 663AS PRO862

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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