VIA P4X266 Motherboard Roundup - The Forbidden Five - January 2002

The Contenders

Because of the pending lawsuit against VIA, the P4X266 chipset has not been adopted by the vast majority of motherboard manufacturers. We've encountered a number of P4X266 designs that will never see the light of day, examples being boards from ABIT and AOpen, the latter we have actually tested.

The other issue we've run into is that there are some manufacturers that will produce and sell the boards however you will see absolutely no mention of the motherboards on their websites. This can be a problem for users especially when it comes to the issue of BIOS updates since no web support means no online BIOS updates for you to download.

With that said, here are the contenders:

ACorp 4VPX266A
Azza P4X2-AV
ECS P4VXAD
Shuttle AV40/R
Tyan Trinity 510
VIA P4XB-SA