We've recently looked at two Albatron motherboards and both proved to be great motherboards, with their nF2 board nabbing the Editor's Choice Award. The Intel board had some flaws with overclocking but was a stable and feature rich board none the less. Today we'll be looking at the K8X800 Pro II which is Albatron's Athlon64 Socket 754 board. The board is based on VIA's K8T800 chipset. VIA appears to have the upper edge in performance against the NF3 150, which is the only challenger at the moment. However, nVidia has announced a new version of the NF3, the nForce 3 250, is due out next month,

Albatron came into the mobo market only a couple years ago and is already breathing down the necks of the big guys in the market. The KX18D Pro II is an awesome board, with little to be desired. A few small changes with the bios layout and the actual board layout and it would have taken King of the Hill. I hope to be as impressed while working with this chipset as well. However, this board is based on VIA's KT800 chip which is well known for the lack of a PCI/AGP lock and therefore will not give us the overclocking potential we saw in the KX18D Pro II.