nForce2 Dethroned? VIA's KT400A Chipset Reviewed

Test Setup

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Hardware
Processor AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8 GHz)Thoroughbred-B core
RAM 2x 256 MB Corsair Micro DDR400, CL2
Hard Drive IBM IC35 series, 40 GB, 7.200 rpm
Graphics Card MSI MS-8900 (GeForce 4 Ti4600), 128 MB
Network Card 3COM 3C905TX-B
Drivers & Software
Chipset Driver NVIDIA driver package ver. 2.03 :Audio driver 3.17 (WHQL)Audio utilities 3.17Network driver 3.13 (WHQL)GART driver 2.78 (WHQL)SMBus driver 2.75 (WHQL)Memory controller driver 2.75 (WHQL)Display Drivers 41.13 (WHQL)VIA Hyperion 4in1 ver. 4.46
Graphics Driver Detonator 4 series ver. 43.45
DirectX Version 9.0A
OS Windows 2000 Professional SP3
Benchmarks
Quake III Arena Benchmark using ’DEMO001’ 640x480x16
Comanche 4 Demo Version Benchmark 640x480x16
3DMark 2001 SE default settings 1024x768x32
SYSmark 2002 Internet Content CreationOffice Application Performance
Lame Lame 3.89
Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo Version Benchmark 640x480
Newtek Lightwave 7.5 Benchmark-Scene Skull_Head
SPECviewperf Version 7.1 1280x1024x32x85
Synthetic Benchmarks PCMark 2002SiSoft Sandra 2003 Pro
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.