Nearly everyone in the industry is familiar with the epic saga involving Infinium Labs suing HardOCP for this article outlining the facts behind the upcoming Phantom console. Being one of the few people in the industry who is always willing to fight...
SiSoft Sandra 2004
The Sandra scores show little performance difference between the chipsets here as we would expect. The memory scores are a bit lower on the K8T890 compared to the more refined K8T Neo2 board, but as we mentioned in the Test...
Board Layout and Images
As this is a reference motherboard, there is little that really needs to be discussed as far as the layout is concerned. However, we'll show a few shots of the board just in case you all might be interested.
From this image...
VIA is the first out the block to bring PCI Express to the AMD platform. But there are still some questions on performance and SLI support.
Here is a summary of the upcoming 8251 south bridge and its features. The new SATA controller from VIA will support command queuing, a feature that only Intel is touting on its ICH6-R south bridge at the moment that has positive performance on...
ScienceMark 2.0 Beta
And finally our last benchmark, that shows... both boards performing nearly the same.
CineBench 2003
KribiBench 1.1
Straight down the line again, we see the K8T890 and the K8T800 Pro performing nearly the same.
XMPEG 5.03 and DivX 5.1.1
LAME MP3
WinRAR
Winstone Tests
The Winstone test results show the K8T890 board a bit behind in raw performance, but again the board is an untweaked reference design for mainly a technology demo.
PC Mark 2002
