Iwill KV200-R Socket-A KT133 ATX
by Henry Kuo on October 4, 2000 12:58 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
The Test
In recent times, choosing a motherboard cannot be completely determined by a Winstone score. Now, many boards come within one Winstone point of each other and therefore the need to benchmark boards against each other falls. Therefore you should not base your decision entirely on the benchmarks you see here, but also on the technical features and advantages of this particular board, seeing as that will probably make the greatest difference in your overall experience.
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Test Configuration |
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Processor(s): |
AMD
Athlon (Thunderbird) 800MHz
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RAM: |
1 x 128MB Mushkin PC133 SDRAM
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Hard Drive(s): |
Western Digital 153BA Ultra
ATA 66 7200 RPM
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Bus Master Drivers: |
VIA 4-in-1 v4.24 Service
Pack
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Video Card(s): |
NVIDIA
GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR
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Video Drivers: |
NVIDIA
Detonator 5.22
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Operation System(s): |
Windows
98 SE
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Motherboard Revision: |
Iwill KV200-R Revision 1.1
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Windows 98 Performance |
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Athlon
800 (KT133)
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Sysmark
2000
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Content
Creation
Winstone 2000 |
Quake
III Arena - 640 x 480 x 16
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Iwill KV200-R |
160
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32.9
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123.9
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Microstar K7T Master |
161
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32.7
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123.7
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Soyo SY-K7VTA |
160
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27.5
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127.0
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Final Words
The Iwill KV200-R performs fairly well in our tests, however, it is not as stable as some of the other Socket-A KT133 motherboards we’ve seen.
The KV200-R is fairly feature rich, with support for ATA-100 and IDE RAID, as well as the unique PheonixNet service, unfortunately the latter will be of little use to most advanced users.
In the end, the KV200-R is a solid attempt by Iwill as their first entry into the Athlon motherboard market, however with the presence of solutions such as the ABIT KT7-RAID, the ASUS A7V and the Microstar K7T Pro, the KV200-R will find it very hard to compete.
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