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"The KK266 motherboard from Iwill continues a long standing tradition of providing overclocking friendly solutions. Based on the VIA KT133A chipset, the KK266 doesn´t change all that much from similar KT133A offerings, but that is not to say it is exactly the same either - indeed it is far from from an ordinary motherboard. W here Iwill does differentiate itself, and where in our opinion it does so beautifully, is by gaining the respect of the hardware community for its´ almost legendary ability to hit high Front Side Bus (FSB) speeds!

When VIA introduced the KT133A chipset, there was actually a bit of disappointment because almost everyone seemed to expect a DDR chipset. Instead we were dealt a SDR solution. Of course, to just about everyone´s surprise, the KT133A became quite the sleeper! DDR being such a catch phrase, most people (including yours truly) forgot that in reality, it only allows twice the bandwidth of conventional SDR memory but isn´t really ´faster.´ By that I mean, the latency stays about the same.
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