Anand's Socket A roundup- SiS735 the winner

[damocles]

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Not a lot in it in many benchmarks, but price being a factor the SiS chipset came out ahead

The real beauty of the 735 isn?t its performance, especially since you?ll find it quite difficult to notice a performance difference (in most cases) between it and the 760/KT266. No, the real beauty of the 735 is its price. The ECS board we used in this review retails for less than $80. We have seen it places for as low as $65 plus shipping. This makes the board and the platform the perfect companion for the very low cost Duron and Athlon processors. For less than $200 you can easily upgrade your system to a Duron on a SiS 735 board with DDR SDRAM courtesy of the very aggressive pricing from AMD, SiS and DDR SDRAM manufacturers such as Crucial.

 

[Piano Man]

Hopefully this will make Nvidia bring the price of thier board down.

 

[pay]

<< Hopefully this will make Nvidia bring the price of thier board down. >>



When is the nForce coming out anyways? Anyone know?

 

[SaturnX]

If all goes well, they should be on shelves next month, probably late september.

--Mark

 

[Ender]

Aren't you talking about the Geforce 3 Ultra? Never heard that the Nforce was coming out in september..

 

[Hender]

A couple of MB manufacturers said in the last week that the chipset will be delayed by 2 months despite what nVidia is saying, and they said that they are a more reliable source they're the ones making the boards.

 

[jeffrey]

From the Boss's mouth himself
Written 8/21/01

&quot;Contrary to popular belief (read: popular rumors), NVIDIA?s nForce isn?t a mess. NVIDIA has learned a lot in these past few months about the chipset/motherboard markets and their progress has been reflected in the current state of nForce motherboards in Taiwan; they don?t have it perfect yet, but they?re getting there. The performance of the chipset is still under NDA so we unfortunately cannot bring you benchmarks of it in this roundup but we will be able to soon enough.&quot;

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