alot of the new ATI mainboards have via southbridge?

[Boonesmi]

i thought this was interesting

link

 

[Evadman]

Nothing really wrong, just being cheap

Don't buy one, then expect your sound blaster live to work tho

 

[Boonesmi]

hehe actually i dont have a problem at all with via chipsets (i use them in most of my systems)

but i know how some people on here hate VIA with a passion
and im sure some of them are people who also love ATI

ohhh well i just thought it was interesting

 

[AA0]

chances are the ATI southbridge won't be cheap, or very good, it takes a while to get that right, so they are using a compatible replacement.

 

[Peter]

Two facts ... (1) Making south bridge chips is pretty hard, I assume ATi just didn't get theirs finished, and are nowhere near achieving that goal - so they took an existing one. (2) VIA's south bridges actually aren't bad (and the SB!Live desaster wasn't a south bridge problem at all, btw. It was a PCI signal quality issue _caused_ by the SB!Live, upsetting the VIA _north_ bridge).

regards, Peter

 

[tinman101]

If it was a PCI problem then why are too many people still having nightmares with the VIA and the Creative Audigy.

 

[AA0]

most people aren't having problems, they just like to blame via for a potential problem.

 

[Pabster]

LOL

People just keep defending the indefensible (shoddy VIA core logic). The excuses never cease to amaze me. The problem isn't SB! Live or "issues" along the PCI bus. The problems lie in VIA's core logic.

And, yes, people are still having problems. Take a look around.

 

[AA0]

the real problem was creative, the live had so many problems on non via chipsets you can't just blame VIA. Intel, Ali, everyone had problems. Of course most people just assume its due to the crappy design of the live cards.

Pabster just blames VIA for his level of incompetence, he has used every via chipset, and has encounter every issue ever known with them. Talk about not knowing how to build a computer.