We are delighted to be able to test out this new chipset. In our tests with the beta drivers supplied with ULi. We discovered that the performance is pretty good in most aspects. This is exceptionally apparent in the disk tests (IDE and SATA) and content creation tests.

The 3D performance is a bit lacking and I think it could be due to AGP driver issues. On the issue of PCI/AGP Fix, I have spoken to ULi on this and they said that it can be supported provided the board manufacturer wants to do that. This is in contrary to NF3Ultra which has this featured embedded within the chipset.

So far, the chipset has been very stable. In the BIOS, there are also options of ASync 166,133,100 operation and that should go into most retail boards. HTT can be set to operate in 8/16 for 1G, 800MHz , 600Mhz, 400 MHz. As it is a single chipset with no north south pairs to talk to, this reduces the latency and would provide a swifter computing experience.

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Pros

• 8 X USB 2.0 
• Gigabit ethernet
• Single chipset

Cons

• No IDE RAID
• No Voltage selections

Ratings

Here are my ratings out of 10 stars.

Highly Recommended Chipset