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Any MOBO with SiS 730S chip?

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goofy2000

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I've seen the pics of the MOBOs based on the new Sis730 chip for Athlon/Duron with integrated everthing. But is any MOBO actually out? If not, when can I expect them to start to come out.. I can't wait..
 
ECS and PC-Chips were the first to show finished product at Comdex. Look for ECS K7SSM aka PC-Chips M810LR. PC-Chips also has BIOS updates for this board on their web site, indicating that it really exists 🙂

http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M810LMR.html

Oddly enough, the picture there shows the AGP slot position empty, no connector there.

There have been rumours that the initial revision of SiS 730S had a problem with exactly that. So conspiracy theorists might think that SiS, instead of scrapping them, sold the entire stock of that partially useless inital revision chip to their long time largest customer PC-Chips at a very low price. PC-Chips sell most of their stuff to OEMs who build ultra-low-cost bargain PCs, and those in turn might just not care about not having an AGP slot ...

If the above rumour is true, then watch for more SiS 730S mainboards (and PC-Chips M810LR with an AGP slot 🙂) surface ... once SiS ships a revised 730S.

Regards, Peter
 
Only seen reports on the reference 730S mobo but it looks good for the value minded consumer. It also managed to FSB overclock pretty well.
 
The fault (IMHO) mostly comes from MOBO manufacturer rather than chipset supplier itself, because I heard that PCCHIP has the ability to make a low quality board with any chipset you can throw at them..
BTW, is ECS any good? I've never heard bout them... Anyone has a mobo with this brand?
 
ECS and PC-Chips are the same company. ECS is the retail outlet, while the all-in-one stuff mostly gets marketed to OEMs.

Depending on where you buy them, you'll get BIOS and drivers only (PC-Chips) or real end user support (ECS).

The boards are OK, no nonsense or overclocking features on them though. They're built to get the job done, not to be played with.

btw, PC-Chips/ECS group is like the fifth largest mainboard maker out there. Don't you think they wouldn't be as big if it were all crap?
Sure, they feed the low end of the market, but especially this is a high volume market where you better not have any design inherent problems in your hardware ...

Most people who curse about PC-Chips gear here simply fail in setting up those all-in-ones correctly - that's the difficult part.

Regards, Peter
 
hmm.. guess you are right peter. I shouldn't have made those comment without personal experience with it.. I was scared when I heard someone's pcchip mobo died on him..I was too fast to judge one them, I admit..

About SiS chip, the conspiricy theory sounds mighty feasible. I too heard that the AGP slot didn't work quite well which is shame.. because it seems to be crucial feature given that the integrated video's performance was rather disappointing.

BTW, I visited the PC-chip website and checked out the 810LMR board. As you've said, no AGP slot was mentioned except small note saying..
After PCB V1.6 , this mainboard provides an optional AGP4x slot
I have no idea what that means though.. does that mean they currently have a board that support it?
And.. couldn't find ECS website.. can you gimme a link on them please?

Also, I found few more mobo manufacturer with no-name..

One is from procomp
www.procomp.com.tw/english/computer/product/mb/sp.asp?type=BSH1M

And the other one (I think it's not yet released) is from fastfame
www.fastfame.com.tw/ENGLISH/PRODUCT/8SAMV

Another one under development is GVC
www.gvc.com.tw/eng/asia/mainboard/infobrow.asp?Model=AR863S&Status=2

I doubt that they are in production though..I don't know anything about them..
 
VIA KM133 not as good as SiS730s.. well according to anand..
But would SiS solution be better than the cellery? This is interesting..
Personally, I would go for SiS, if they can come up with stable, reliable board because AMD has just tad lil higher upgradibility.. just bit..
 
goofy,

that means that from mainboard revision 1.6 on, PC-Chips will populate the AGP slot position on the 810LMR. Current product photo shows no slot but mainboard designed to have one.

ECS is www.ecs.com.tw - their product name for the same thing is K7SSM, but they don't have it on their site yet (they did show it at Comdex, apparently).

810LMR (w/o AGP slot) has become available in Germany already.

Regards, Peter
 
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