SiS 735 vs. KT266a mobo experience!?

[Nitropharm]

Hi!

In the very near future I?m going to upgrade my system, and as many I was impressed by the KT266a chipset, and had my mind set on one of the coming ASUS boards. But one can?t help noticing the pricing of the SiS 735 boards ? almost half the price of the expected ASUS boards ? and as I recall the performance results of the SiS 735 chipset weren?t that much poorer than the KT266a. Anyone, with an ounce of economic reason, will have to consider the math ? does the KT266a actually give you a considerable performance boost in order to justify the added price?

Does anyone have any practical SiS 735 mobo experience/recommendations?

Right now the only available boards in Denmark (yes, that?s in Europe) are ECS K7S5A and PC Chips EM-8330LMR.

I?ve posted this question on a Danish forum (edbpriser.dk) and there was consensus that the ECS board was the best choice (also according to tomshardware) ? to give the debate an international angle I?m posting it here.

Any comments are very welcome!

 

[Tom]

I have an ECS K7S5A and a Shuttle AK31a v3.1(KT266a), both have worked flawlessly for me and both are very fast. The Shuttle has more options for overclocking and 4 memory slots versus 2 on the ECS, but otherwise I'd say they are evenly matched except for price.