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Anand does SiS 648 DDR400 P4 chipset
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RaynorWolfcastle
Diamond Member
How do the prices of PC1066 compare with the price of PC3200? If the difference is small why not just pay the small premium and get a guaranteed stable and speedy solution with an i850e board + PC1066...
Otherwise, the scores are impressive for DDR
-Ice
Otherwise, the scores are impressive for DDR
-Ice
i really wish anand would have included the 845g w/ ddr333 cuz i am planning on getting a board w/ that but i might be able to hold off if these ones come out soon also 1394 onboard sounds nice...
Josh
edit: oh by the way abit's sis 648 mobo is listed on price watch for $99, not to bad...
Josh
edit: oh by the way abit's sis 648 mobo is listed on price watch for $99, not to bad...
Well, had it been a single chip design, there'd still be two chips -- the northbridge and the I/O chip. VIA has the I/O chip integrated in all of their southbridges, and the total number of chipsets is 2. As for SiS and Intel, they both use external I/O chips.
The performance is surely impressive. If only RAM prices were dropping instead of rising, it would be an unquestionably winning combination.
Athlon4all
Diamond Member
Well, SiS 648 Provided there is a great ocing feature filled board using it, has just taken the crown from 845g as the best pentium 4 chipset,closing the gap vs 850e to below 5% (not noticeable) in all but ProE-01, DRV-08, and UT 2003 Medium Detail (not applicable) when using DDR333. SiS may have a big time winner in the 648 not just for the Enthusiast community but for the OEM's as well because of not just USB2 but Firewire and the "super fast"😉 AGP 8X support. This is the king of the P4 chipsets in my book, with little reason to spend money on 850e and PC1066.
Chee, among the highlights:
"VIA?s P4X400 board did not run DDR400 as seamlessly as the SiS 648 reference board and was not able to produce scores in some tests; in other situations it merely crashed randomly."
What a surprise. 😀
"SiS has definitely come a long way in the past couple of years; from stealing VIA's thunder with the Socket-A 735 chipset to being the primary player in the 3rd party P4 chipset market, if they can improve their product execution SiS could easily become a force to be reckoned with."
100% agreed. SiS has stolen VIA's thunder in a hurry. 735 remains (IMHO) the most stable, reliable Socket A DDR chipset (no, I haven't forgotten AMD761 ... but show me a 761+766 single CPU board 😀) and SiS' P4 efforts have been awesome. 645/645DX are excellent chipsets. It looks like 648 paired with DDR400 will provide the best price/performance ratio for the P4, at least for the time being.
Chalk up another nail in the RAMBUSt coffin 😀 😛 🙂
"VIA?s P4X400 board did not run DDR400 as seamlessly as the SiS 648 reference board and was not able to produce scores in some tests; in other situations it merely crashed randomly."
What a surprise. 😀
"SiS has definitely come a long way in the past couple of years; from stealing VIA's thunder with the Socket-A 735 chipset to being the primary player in the 3rd party P4 chipset market, if they can improve their product execution SiS could easily become a force to be reckoned with."
100% agreed. SiS has stolen VIA's thunder in a hurry. 735 remains (IMHO) the most stable, reliable Socket A DDR chipset (no, I haven't forgotten AMD761 ... but show me a 761+766 single CPU board 😀) and SiS' P4 efforts have been awesome. 645/645DX are excellent chipsets. It looks like 648 paired with DDR400 will provide the best price/performance ratio for the P4, at least for the time being.
Chalk up another nail in the RAMBUSt coffin 😀 😛 🙂
SiS has stolen VIA's thunder in a hurry
I'll say. Especially if the 648 boards look like the Shuttle AS45 rev 1.2. That board is a killer.
735 remains (IMHO) the most stable, reliable Socket A DDR chipset
Ill second that one, too. Just bumped the FSB on my MSI 745 Ultra up to 190MHz. Running rock stable with a 256MB stick of Crucial PC2100. As a bonus my Diamond MX300/Aureal Vortex 2 sound card is working like a champ with no register or latency patches required.
I'll say. Especially if the 648 boards look like the Shuttle AS45 rev 1.2. That board is a killer.
735 remains (IMHO) the most stable, reliable Socket A DDR chipset
Ill second that one, too. Just bumped the FSB on my MSI 745 Ultra up to 190MHz. Running rock stable with a 256MB stick of Crucial PC2100. As a bonus my Diamond MX300/Aureal Vortex 2 sound card is working like a champ with no register or latency patches required.
High End PC3200 vs. High End PC1066:
Corsair XMS PC3200 256MB - $125 (at newegg)
Samsung RIMM4200 PC1066 - $170 (at newegg)
PRICE DIFFERENCE: $45
Lower End PC3200 vs. Lower End PC1066:
Kingmax PC3200 256MB - $80 (at newegg)
KINGSTON RAMBUS 256MB 1066MHZ - $146 (at newegg)
PRICE DIFFERENCE: $66
I'm sorry, what were you saying? 😉 😀
Sunny129
Diamond Member
i'm about to upgrade my system to a P4 1.6A CPU, and i'm 99% sure that i'm going to use the SiS648 chipset. now its just a matter of who's mobo is the most stable, reliable, and overclockable...and how long i can wait for it. Shuttle's new board is just full of features, but most of them are due to the chipset itself. if i were to go with the ASUS later on, i would know for a fact that i have one of the most stable boards out there, and the only true mobo feature i'd be missing is RAID i think...
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