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Installation
The motherboard's
hardware installation can be done very fast due to the format of
the KT3 Ultra2 which fits most cases on the market. There are no
jumpers to setup and the layout is pretty well organized. The CPU
is detected at startup or the CPU setup can be done in no time from
BIOS. In the package MSI included two CDs, one with the motherboard
drivers and general utils and one with the sound card drivers. The
installation procedure is based on a control panel and it’s
quite intuitive. Take a look below to the system configuration used
for testing.
| Motherboard |
MSI
KT3 Ultra2 AMI BIOS 2002-9-10 version 5.6 |
| CPU |
AMD
Athlon XP 2400+ |
| Cooler |
Taisol
CGK760172 |
| Memory |
Corsair 512Mb PC2100 DDR registered
Mushkin 256MB PC3200 unbuffered
Crucial 512Mb PC2100 DDR registered
Geil 256Mb PC2700 DDR unbuffered
Mushkin
256Mb PC2700 DDR unbuffered
Corsair 256Mb PC3200 DDR unbuffered CAS2 |
| Video
card |
MSI
GeForce 4 4400 128Mb |
| Hard
disk |
Western Digital 120Gb 7200rpm UDMA133 |
| Operating
Systems |
Windows
XP Professional SP1
Linux RedHat 8.0 |
| Drivers |
nVidia
Detonator 30.82 version
VIA 4n1 4.43 |
| Benchmarks |
BapCO
SYSMark 2002
Quake III Arena 1.29g |
|
As you can see
I tried several 333Mhz modules with KT3 Ultra2. From my latest tests
I have learned that both AMD and Intel CPUs are not really prepared
for 400Mhz DDR memory so that a KT333 motherboard could be a good
choice. Unfortunately not all KT333 motherboards are able to work
properly with all slots filled with 333Mhz modules. We will see
later what we can expect from KT3 Ultra2 from this point of view. |
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