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MSI K7T266Pro2-RU (1) MSI is the first manufacturer to announce and sell it's KT266A solution. We have been waited for too long for a solution that really brings out the best of DDR performance. Well, the wait is almost over with the current KT266A based MSI K7T266Pro2-RU. We have seen the performance of the KT266A board with reference to SiS735 and ALiMAGIK1 earlier and without much doubts, the KT266A is the solution which should be brought to the masses instead with newer revisions of KT266. There is no deny that the reference KT266A wins in most aspects when compared to retail boards based on Sis735, AMD761, ALiMAGIK1. We are going to find out how does retail KT266A boards pit against them. With a new silver and red packaging, MSI has
really put in lots of work on designing a package that appeals to anyone. It
looks attractive. Together with the package is a free MSI SmartKey which is a
USB device which resembles those DONGLE used in locking
applications. In fact, the function of Smartkey is similar to what a dongle
does. We will look into that later. This is also the first board to support 4
USB 2.0 ports, 4 USB 1.1 ports
We received this board last week and spent some time meddling with it. We had conducted a number of tests with the different BIOS revisions to make it even better. In fact, the earliest BIOS i received was bad performing. In our tests, we used the latest beta BIOS from MSI which is dated 4 Oct 2001 and loaded high performance settings in our testing. The results are reasonably high for a beta bios. Although there were some hiccups during testing, this should be resolved in future BIOS upgrades. Read next page for the full specifications. |
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