T-Break has posted a review on the first retail board based on VIA's revamped P4X266 chipset, now called P4X266A in the form of the Shuttle AV45GTR.
Those guys at Shuttle work fast- REAL fast. No sooner had we heard about VIA's new A version of their P4X266 chipset, we got an email from them asking us if we would be interested in reviewing their board based on this chipset and within five days of that, the AV45GTR arrived. Although it has hardly been a few months since the original P4X266 chipset came out, VIA probably started feeling the heat with both SiS and ALi announcing and releasing their P4/DDR chipsets with DDR-333 support. And thus VIA decided to tweak their chipset to improve performance and add ATA-133 support- however, DDR333 is still not supported. Lets find out how this new P4X266A chipset based Shuttle AV45GTR performs.Read more