VIA P4X266 Motherboard Roundup - The Forbidden Five - January 2002

Synthetic Memory Performance SiSoft Sandra 2001 - STREAM FP VIA P4XB-SA ECS P4VXAD Azza P4X2-AV ACorp 4VPX266A Shuttle AV40/R Tyan Trinity 510 1250 1162 1070 1061 1059 1022 | 0 | 250 | 500 | 750 | 1000 | 1250 | 1500

Here you can see the theoretical benefits of the P4X266A North Bridge as the P4XB-SA offers a 7.5% lead over its closest P4X266 competitor.

Among the five P4X266 based motherboards, the ECS is clearly the fastest in this test with the Tyan Trinity 510 bringing up the rear. We'd assume that Tyan had to make some performance sacrifices to offer support for a total of four DIMM slots.