Comprehensive VIA motherboard roundup June 2000

IWill VD133 Pro

IWill sent us a new BIOS version for their VD133 Pro. And guess what: Its performance became much better. According to IWill, revision 1.3 seems to be even faster. I hope to get this latest revision within the next few weeks, as I think IWill is still the only motherboard company which is shipping a VIA 694X motherboard with IDE RAID controller on board. Using two or more hard drives simultaneously will push up performance some more.

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.