| Chipset | AGP | PCI/ISA/AMR | DIMM/ECC | USB/Sound | Performance | Reliability | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-Trend ATC6240-V | 693A | 2x | 5/2/no | 4/yes | 2/no | Mediocre | Good |
| AOpen AX64 Pro | 694X | 4x | 4/1/yes | 3/yes | 2/yes | Average | Excellent |
| Asus P3V4X | 694X | 4x | 6/1/no | 4/yes | 2/no | Excellent | Excellent |
| Azza PT-6VAX2 | 693A | 2x | 4/1/no | 3/no | 2/no | Mediocre | Excellent |
| Chaintech 6ATA4 | 694X | 4x | 5/1/yes | 3/yes | 2/yes | Average | Mediocre |
| DFI TA64 | 694X | 4x | 5/1/no | 3/yes | 4/yes | Good | Excellent |
| Eüpa VP1 | 693A | 2x | 4/2/yes | 3/no | 2/yes | - | Unknown |
| FIC KA11 | 694X | 4x | 5/2/no | 4/yes | 2/yes | Good | Poor |
| Gigabyte GA-6VX-4X | 694X | 4x | 5/1/yes | 4/yes | 4/yes | Good | Good |
| IWill VD133 | 693A | 2x | 5/1/no | 3/yes | 2/no | Mediocre | Good |
| Jetway 994AN-L | 694X | 4x | 4/1/no | 3/no | 2/no | Mediocre | Good |
| Lucky Star 6VA693A | 693A | 2x | 4/2/yes | 3/no | 4/yes | Mediocre | Good |
| MSI MS-6199 | 693A | 2x | 5/2/no | 3/yes | 2/no | Mediocre | Excellent |
| Q-Lity P3V-T | 693A | 2x | 5/2/no | 3/no | 2/no | Good * | Good |
| RioWorks PSVA | 694X | 4x | 4/2/yes | 3/no | 2/no | Average | Poor |
| Shuttle AV61 | 693A | 2x | 5/2/no | 3/no | 2/no | Poor | Excellent |
| Soltek SL-67KV | 694X | 4x | 5/1/yes | 3/yes | 4/yes | Excellent | Excellent |
| Tekram P6PRO-AU | 694X | 4x | 5/1/yes | 3/yes | 2/yes | Good | Poor |
| TMC TI6VG4 | 694X | 4x | 5/1/yes | 3/yes | 4/yes | Good | Excellent |
| Transcend TS-AVD1 | 693A | 2x | 5/2/no | 3/yes | 2/no | Average | Excellent |
| Tyan S1854 | 694X | 4x | 6/1/ni | 3/yes | 2/no | Average | Excellent |
* This motherboard is only rated "good" as the AGP is running overclocked by default.
Performance
Please take a look at the benchmark charts to get a better impression of the performance of the boards. When reading about excellent, good, average or mediocre, please take into account that the difference between the fastest and the slowest board (except Shuttle) is about 12-13% regarding the SYSmark runs and between 25 - 30% for the game benchmarks.
As power gamer, speed freak or professional user, you should take a closer look at the benchmarks. Standard Windows applications won't show any differences, so they should concentrate on their favorite features.
Reliability
A board is excellent if there was not one single issue during the tests. Good boards caused a maximum of two minor problems which were not important, e.g. stability issues with a heavily overclocked CPU or hang ups at hardcore timing settings. Mediocre means that there were at least three hang ups or blue screens. Poor boards did not even complete at least one benchmark run.
- Introduction
- AGP, IDE-Controller, Memory Interface
- The Chipsets
- Test Setup
- Feature Overview
- A-Trend ATC6240V
- AOpen AX64 Pro
- Asus P3V4X
- Azza PT-6VAX2
- Chaintech 6ATA4
- DFI TA64
- Eüpa VP1
- FIC KA11
- Gigabyte GA-6VX-4X
- IWill VD133
- Jetway 994AN-L
- Lucky Star 6VA693A
- MSI MS-6199
- Q-Lity P3V-T
- RioWorks PSVA
- Shuttle AV61
- Soltek SL-67KV
- Tekram P6PRO-AU
- TMC TI6VG4
- Transcend TS-AVD1
- Tyan S1854 Trinity 400
- Motherboard Feature Comparison Table
- The Benchmarks: SYSmark 2000 - Windows 98 SE
- The Benchmarks: SYSmark 2000 - Windows NT 4.0
- The Benchmarks: Direct 3D Performance - Expendable Timedemo
- The Benchmarks: OpenGL Performance - Quake III Arena
- Recommendations
- Final Thoughts