The Test

In recent times, choosing a motherboard cannot be completely determined by a Winstone score. Now, many boards come within one Winstone point of each other and therefore the need to benchmark boards against each other falls. Therefore you should not base your decision entirely on the benchmarks you see here, but also on the technical features and advantages of this particular board, seeing as that will probably make the greatest difference in your overall experience.

Click Here to learn about AnandTech's Motherboard Testing Methodology.

Test Configuration

Processor(s):
AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) 1GHz
RAM:
1 x 128MB Mushkin PC133 SDRAM
Hard Drive(s):
Western Digital 153BA Ultra ATA 66 7200 RPM
Bus Master Drivers:
VIA 4-in-1 v4.24 Service Pack
Video Card(s):
NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR
Video Drivers:
NVIDIA Detonator 5.22
Operation System(s):
Windows 98 SE
Motherboard Revision:
Iwill KK266 Revision 1.1

Results

Windows 98 Performance

Athlon 1GHz OEM
Sysmark 2000
Content Creation
Winstone 2000
Quake III Arena
640 x 480 x 16
Iwill KK266 (KT133A / 133MHz)
197
37.0
152.7
ASUS A7V133 (KT133A / 133MHz)
197
37.6
153.4
MSI K7T Turbo (KT133A / 133MHz)
194
37.5
145.7
EPoX EP-8KTA3 (KT133A / 133MHz)
196
36.7
146.3
ABIT KT7A-RAID (KT133A / 133MHz)
197
37.4
149.6
MSI K7T Pro2 (KT133 / 100MHz)
189
35.8
135.1

If you look at the SYSMark 2000 and Quake III Arena scores, the Iwill performs similar to the ASUS A7V133, which has the performance lead. However, with the Content Creation Winstone 2000, the KK266 obtains the lowest score, falling behind the ABIT KT7A-RAID but remaining ahead of the last place (among KT133A's) EpoX EP-8KTA3.

Although we say Iwill falls to the back, we are talking about a difference of less than 2%, and with BIOS revisions being released seemingly every other day, we expect the scores to undergo some changes, and hopefully be more consistent by the time we publish a KT133A roundup.

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