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TargetPC has posted a review on the Tyan Trinity KTa SocketA motherboard



The FIC AD11 posted the best numbers ever to come out of our SocketA testing. Now to give credit where it is due a lot of that was the result of its DDR memory. Now that we have established that we have to also mention that at this point DDR is still expensive and nowhere near inexpensive like PC133 memory. Good ´ol SDRAM still has a lot of future, especially since you can purchase a stick of PC133 for quite a bit less than $100. When I tested the AOpen AK73 I had hoped that there was a big jump to accompany AMD´s recent move to a 266 MHz FSB Athlon. Well, the AK73 could not post at 266 and I was stuck at 900 MHz with the 1.2 GHz CPU that AMD sent. Enter Tyan and the Trinity KTa motherboard. Tyan has produced some very impressive motherboards in the past so let´s see what the KTa has up its sleeve.
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