Quake III Arena: Fastest demo001
	Setting:	FPS:
1.	10 x 100 MHz	125.4
2.	10 x 133 MHz	180.1

There are a few interesting spots in the benchmarks here. First, in Sandra's Memory bandwidth tests, there isn't much of a difference between the two bus speeds. It's kind of odd, I purposely set the memory speed to run at the same speed as the bus, but it doesn't look like that option stuck.

The next interesting spot is on Quake III's demo001 score. For some reason it looks like processor and bus speed make a huge difference in the performance of this game. It's already known that Q3 has an appetite for high bus speeds but it looks like you also need a high speed CPU to back it up as well. Oh, I did rerun those two benchmarks to make sure it wasn't just a fluke.

Even with the stability problems I experienced, there are a few general conclusions about the board we can draw. First, the general layout of the KT-A is pretty good, the IDE and floppy drive connectors are exactly where you'd want them to be and the ATX power plug is at the top of the board and isn't going to obstruct air flow (this I like a lot).

I also like the relative small size of the KT-A's PCB. Its performance is on par with other KT133A boards that I've worked with in the past, and thanks to it's lack of extra features, the Tyan KT-A should be one of the cheapest boards around. Also, if the KT-A is even close to it's brethren in terms of reliability, it would easily rival its competitors best efforts. While this isn't something we normally comment on, I feel I must say that the instruction manual Tyan pack with this motherboard is very well done. Granted, most of us don't spend too much time reading a motherboard's instruction manual, but in this case it was nice to see a very well layed out manual full of coherent explainations (that even the first time user could understand).