AOpen AK77 Plus (KT266A) Mainboard

Chassis Intrusion Sensor

A small two-pin sensor when connected can let you know if someone has been monkeying inside your box.  A definite must for all those obsessive-compulsive paranoid types out there.  (We all know at least one!)

Present also is a Resettable Fuse, System and RAM Power LED, and AOpen’s Hardware Monitoring Utility.  The monitoring utility allows you to keep tabs on the CPU temperature, fan status, and the system voltage.  

Performance

To see how the AK77 Plus (A) gets the rubber to the road, we are going to put it through a mix of synthetic and real world benchmarks.  We will be using SiSoft Sandra Pro, Mad Onion’s 3D Mark 2000 v 1.1, 3D Mark 2001, and lastly, the old standby Quake3 Arena (v1.17). 

Test Bed

• AMD Athlon XP 1800+  (courtesy of Arena Computers)
• Akasa Silver Mountain Heatsink
• 512 megs Crucial PC2100 DDR
• ASUS V8200 GeForce 3
• Seagate Barracuda 20gb ATA100 7,200 RPM HDD
• GlobalWin YCC-61F1 Aluminum Server Case
• Windows 2000 with all patches and service pack 2 installed
• VIA 4.26 4 in 1 Drivers

Let’s start off with Sandra’s CPU and Multi-Media benches.

I get a kick out of seeing the AMD 1800+ (really a 1.53GHz chip) tear up an Intel chip pumping a third more juice.

You can see that the VIA KT266A chipset is gaining ground in overcoming the memory gap between it and the Intel 850 chipset.  Its still lagging but certainly not as badly as with the KT266.

We ran Q3A in 1024x768 and 1600x1200 resolutions with the “Fastest” and “High Quality” settings.

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