10. Same resolution but with maximum details, including sound:
Abit KT7A-raid

Abit KR7A-raid

Abit AN7

11. We increase the resolution to 1280*1024, max details:
Abit KT7A-raid

Abit KR7A-raid

Abit AN7

12. Same resolution, 1280*1024, but this time with sound:
Abit KT7A-raid

Abit KR7A-raid

Abit AN7

13. And finally, the grand daddy in the retro world: 1600*1200!
Abit KT7A-raid

Abit KR7A-raid

Abit AN7

14. The final and most demanding settings: 1600*1200 max details with sound:
Abit KT7A-raid

Abit KR7A-raid

Abit AN7

Aquamark 3 summary: any hope for KT133A to finally catch up with its DDR cousins is gone! In all tests that include sound there is a large performance hit compared to KT266A and nforce2 ultra; also as the resolution and level of details increase the delta between KT133A/SDRAM and KT266A/nforce2 grows! The more demanding the settings the bigger the hit on performance!
Nforce2 ultra does not have an advantage over KT266A in tests done without sounds; however in all test with sound there is a minimum 10% advantage NVidia has over VIA!
Based on the average FPS, sound storm helps nforce2 ultra secure the first clear victory!

As I forgot to take some screenshots with the KT7A+1200B containing the system info I am going to put up now a few.
Abit KT7A-raid is a well known board who gets a lot of attention so I decided to put together fast a system with the second board with which I checked the results obtained with the first.
Very little recognition and very little attention is given to another highly capable Abit board: KT7E - the twin of the famed KT7A!

This board has the KT133E chipset according to Wikipedia, however it is practically a KT133A and supports all Thunderbird models with both 200 and 266 MHz FSB. I must mention that there is absolutely no way someone could install a 266 MHz T-bird on the KT7-raid. However KT7E runs just fine with all T-birds and also with all Palomino and T-bred up to 2000 just like the KT7A.
In the pictures below you can see the clock generator and the 686B southbridge together with the most relevant BIOS settings.

15. Going back to the benchmarks we are now at 3dmark 2000.
First is 1024*768 resolution with default settings - that means 16 bit colors depth!
KT7A-RAID
KR7A-RAID
AN7

16. Results at 1280*1024 resolution:
KT7A-RAID
KR7A-RAID
AN7