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Soltek 75DRV5 KT333 Motherboard Review

by Ramil Tranquilino

April 25, 2002

 

 

Manufactured by: Soltek

Supplied by: PCGear

 

Intro

With the huge success of the KT266A, VIA is again knocking on the enthusiast's doors with their KT333 chipset.  Capable of DDR333 which offers 25% more bandwidth than its older brother, the KT333 is poised to be the best AMD DDR platform to date.   DDR333 memory delivers a stunning 2.7GB/sec of memory bandwidth to AMD Athlon XP processor based systems.  Having seen the performance of the previous KT266A chipset, this chipset promises to give us unprecedented power and reliability.  Can VIA do a repeat?

 

 

 

Soltek DRV5

One of the first boards that came out using the KT333 was Soltek.  Also fresh from the success of their DRV line of motherboards, they decided that having a KT333 based motherboard would be a great addition to their products.  Having very good experience with VIA's KT266A, with their DRV2 and DRV4, Soltek decided that they should get a board out of this new chipset fast.  So out came this motherboard, the DRV5.  With their previous DRVs being widely accepted by the enthuiast market, can Soltek do the same magic and produce another winner? 

 

 

 

KT266A Vs KT333

What performance gains are we expecting over the mighty KT266A?  How is it different in terms of features and benefits?   Below is a graph that will somehow show you a summary of where the differences and similarities start and end. 

 

 

 

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