Originally Posted by dackampf
I have to agree that Spacewalker boards are a bit, well, \"ghetto\" for most people that read this page (i did mention this to Damage :D ). However, the fact that it\'s not just another simple and straightforward board with 3 SDRAM DIMM slots, 4 PCI slots and 1 ISA slot makes it an exception to the rule.

This board is 3/4-way decent.

Regardless of its brand, it\'s certainly a good board to test out SDRAM vs DDR, save for the problematic Micron stuff. Please tell me you\'re going to re-test it when you get some sticks that can work without serious tweaking in the wrong direction.

Now where\'s the 266 with SDRAM and SMP? I got dibs!

Originally Posted by ronald
What is kind of bad about the VIA Apollo Pro 266 is that it won\'t support Tualatin in its current incarnation. Makes it tough to recommend this board at this stage of the game.

Forge, I hope the perpetually-dithering Gerbil over on the Gladiator II: Pentium 4 vs. Athlon DDR is reading this: I think you've given him a good upgrade path. :)

...as long as he'd spend the money.

I'm hoping this isn't a good indicator of Apollo Pro266 performance, elsewise it's just a good way to use that DDR you bought while waiting for a true DDR mobo. The boosted PC133 scores are OK, though. Gives Apollo Pro 133A users an interesting upgrade path...

Apollo Pro 133A
Pro266 with SDR you already own
Pro266 with DDR
DDR mobo and the DDR you already bought

Solves the chicken and egg DDR problem, at least. I'll keep my KT133A, though, since it's all (pretty much) the same, at least for now.

Nice article Damage.

As to your latency/bandwidth question on the last page, it seems to me that latency seems to be much more important in real world applications and in REAL performace in comparison to bandwidth. Like with Rambust, (I'll help with the website if somebody starts it :-) ) it seems that the extra bandwidth seems to really help with Sandra scores when compared to anything else but that doesn't seem to occur in many other tests.

Or are the electrons from my screen sapping what little brain cells I have left?

Two points:

1) Shuttle/Spacewalker boards stink, in general.

2) You HAVE to start putting indices in your reports. If I can't jump to the part of the article I need, I don't jump to the article at all. Hint, hint. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.