La conclusion d'un test sur l'Abit:
The Final Word
Abits KV8 Pro motherboard looks like it was rushed out the door in order to be the first on the market with VIA's new K8T800 Pro chipset. Its pretty clear that Abit simply dropped in the new Northbridge chip from VIA on to their existing KV8 design, made a few BIOS tweaks and updates, and quickly produced a new motherboard. This is what VIA has been intending motherboard makers do to with their new chip, but it appears Abit hasnt taken the time to fully exploit the features of the K8T800 Pro chipset with this new board. There are still stability features which need to be worked out with this platform, in its current state this board can be extremely frustrating at times.
Really though, for the price tag that this board is going for, its a fairly good deal. Athlon64 boards have been surprisingly expensive thus far, and only now are prices starting to hit levels where they are comparable to Intel Pentium 4 platforms. For the majority of home users, this platform has all the features one could need in an Athlon64 platform. Serial ATA/150 RAID, Gigabit LAN, AGP 8x, USB 2.0, and a great set of onboard audio functions, not bad for a budget platform.
The boards missing Firewire functionality, two disk Serial ATA/150 limitation, and two DDR DIMM slot limitations will undoubtedly irk some looking for higher levels of performance, but it looks like Abit will be producing a high-end variant of this motherboard to address these issues in the future. It looks doubtful that Abit will be putting a third-DIMM slot into the mix though, which is interesting, as rival manufacturers such as Asus have been producing three and four DDR memory slot designs based on VIA K8T800 chipsets for quite some time.
The overclockability functions of this board are just dying to be exploited, but without a working AGP / PCI clock lock function, heavy overclocking on this board will get into risky territory. Abit does a good job of allowing the user to lightly overclock their CPU and memory speeds (between 5-10% higher than stock), so if youre looking for a little extra performance boost without any real work, this board can do the job. We were really hoping to see what our new Athlon64 3400+ CG-stepping chips could run at, but the limitations of this motherboard came into play rather quickly. The fact that VIA has shown off working AGP / PCI clock lock functions on this same chipset make the lack of this feature on the KV8 Pro so much more frustrating. Alas, if youre not into overclocking, one shouldnt even bother sweating this missing feature.
With VIAs K8T800 Pro series chipset barely even registering on the excitement-o-meter, nVidias upcoming nForce3 250-series show have an open window to win back some potential AMD enthusiasts they may have lost to VIA over the past six months.
Ce que j'ai mis en gras fait un peu peur quand meme
Message édité par Markus2 le 05-07-2005 à 01:09:25
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Marc.