Abit KV8-MAX3 Review @ Legion Hardware

Here is the latest Athlon64 system from Abit based on the VIA K8T800 chipset. The board comes with the MAX3 cooling system along with many things we have come to expect from Abit.
"Due to the memory controller now being integrated into the processor, there is less the chipset can offer performance wise. In the past chipsets such as the nFoce2 and KT600 have been alienated by their memory controllers. For this reason I have been seeing very little variance in performance from one K8T800 board to another. If performance has been removed from the scene as a deciding factor on which motherboard a particular user should purchase, what should we base our decision on?"
I have noticed this as well, today’s gaming systems rely on two things with the most important being memory access, with the integrated memory controller it won't really matter what chipset you go with.

Then again the jury just left to deliberate.

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