Any word on Sis 735 or nForce mobos?

[Noriaki]

Any word on mobos based on Sis735 and/or nForce?

 

[Modus]

Chaintech was first to announce an SiS 735 board. Whether they'll be first to market is anyone's guess. Many companies are unjustifiably worried about sinking a lot of resources into anything with an SiS logo on it. In fact, recent SiS chipsets (530, 540, 620, 630, 730) have performed quite respectably for highly integrated PC's.

I really hope the SiS 735 sees the light of day. Its lack of integrated video is a problem, though. I suppose it was done to reduce pin count, but that puts it in direct competition with VIA's KT266.

Modus

 

[NelsonMuntz]

But if it beats the KT266 and even AMD 761 and is stable I'm all over it. The lack of integrated video only adds to the beauty because until nForce all integrated video sucks any way. Crossing my fingers!

 

[Soccerman]

I heard ASUS was making a SiS 735 based mobo too.. don't know when it will come out.

Also, ECS is making one (I've had a mobo of theirs before, it was ok).

 

[MGMorden]

I'm still couting on Abit to make an SiS 735 or nForce board. Say what you want but I've had nothing but great experiences from them (compared to the horror story of an experience a buddy of mine had/has setting up his Asus A7A266).

 

[SergeantDan]

Both sound very promising, but I, like all of you am eager to find out more. Tom has a review on his site for the SIS 735 (amd) and the SIS 635 (INTEL) :disgust:
Apparently the 735 kicks some serious @ss, and the 635 sucks @ss.
Only 1 chipset involved here. No more North/South chipsets. I like it. But I am really in a bind now. I was leaning toward the nforce, and now SIS had to make a promising chip; what the hell??? Well we will see how they do in the real world, that is the true test. Unfortunately, I dont know if I will be able to contain myself long enough to wait for the testers' response. I may have to be one of the testers. I need more info on these two myself.

 

[Soccerman]

I was leaning toward the nforce, and now SIS had to make a promising chip actually SiS 735 chipset previews (which included benchmarks) were out in advance of the nForce previews by a few days, but I won't hold you to that!

be sure that we all see what the Palomino does on both chipsets. We all know the T-Bird will benefit (rather, SHOULD benefit) from the built into the chipset hardware prefetching, however when you add a Palomino into that mix, which has hardware prefetching as well, I have no idea what is going to happen..

By the time any of these chipsets becomes available to consumers, we'll have the official Palomino release from AMD methinks..

 

[Informant X]

Customer SiS parts MB model No. Form Factor CPU supported Web site
Chaintech 735 7SID MATX AMD Athlon?/ Duron? www.chaintech.com.tw
Gigabyte 735 GA-7SRX ATX AMD Athlon?/ Duron? www.gigabyte.com.tw
Leadtek 735 WinFast7350DDR ATX AMD Athlon?/ Duron? www.leadtek.com.tw

 

[Noriaki]

The only thing I find at Gigabyte's site is the 7SDX based on the Sis 733 chipset? Anyone know what this chip is? Not 735...but 733...I've never heard of it

Typo perhaps ?

 

[intelbugger]

Sis 733 is the non-DDR PC133 SDRAM version of Sis 735. It is mentioned on their site (sis.com.tw). I wouldn't go with it.