VIA P4XB -RA 266A mainboard

As you can see the Via P4X-266A chipset is definitely faster than the P4X-266 chipset. However though we see this performance increase in all synthetic benchmarks, in real life I doubt users will experience anything of the ordinary. Looking at the tests we realize that even though there’s a performance increase, it’s not a lot. I cannot say where the P4X-266A chipset stands in terms of the competition, namely the SIS 645 chip etc, nevertheless this chip still does produce good performance for the average user. It may not offer all the bells and whistles SOYO boards’ offer these days; however this is still a really good board. In comparison to the KT266 chip, the KT266A offered a tremendous leap in performance. However we do not see the same situation here as the P4X-266 chip offers very decent performance, and as such there isn’t a great degree of room for improvement. We see that the P4X-266A chip perform better than the P4X-266 in almost every benchmark we performed, however the performance gain isn’t anything to drool over. Irrespective of that, a performance gain is still a performance gain, which is most welcome.

Overall the board has been very stable and it has very decent performance as well. One of the good news about the P4X-266A chipset is that it does not cost any more than the former P4X-266 chipset, which makes opting for a P4X-266A based board all the more sense. If you’re currently looking for a P4 board, which is well within the budgets of almost everybody, then the P4XB-RA is certainly a great option to go for. Think about it, the P4XB-RA offers very good performance for no additional cost of a P4X-266 board, it overclocks quite well, it offers good memory performance, which makes this a cool Pentium 4 board.