chipsets with video and lan

[jachristie79]

I was wondering which chipsets are the fastest, I known that these types of chipsets aren't as popular so it's harder to find information on them. I can't find any benchmarks anywhere on any of these.

SIS 740
Nforce 220 -d
VIA KM266

I am looking into buying some small form factor machines for rendering and was wondering which chipsets were the fastest/most dependable. If there are any other chipsets out there that you can add that would be great!!

Also, I would like to stick with socket A and DDR casue of price.

I'm also thinking of putting these in 1U server rackmounts, cause I'm also limited on space.

Thanks in advance,
Jachristie79

 

[rkoenn]

I have built systems with PC Chips inexpensive motherboards using the integrated SIS chipset. These included video, sound, and LAN. It seems from my experience that if the motherboard works for the first hour or so it is a good board and will last for the life of the box. Obviously you are not going to get great video speed for gaming, but as a basic internet and office app system, they seem to be quite good. They run XP just fine and seem to be very stable. I am certain the NVidia based boards would be good with much better sound and video quality. I have no experience with the Via integrated boards but have built a lot of boxes with the KT133, 266, 266A, and KT333 chipsets and they run quite nicely. Good luck, and if you are actually using it for a low end server, the video and sound won't make much difference anyway.

 

[30wolverine30]

Asus A7N266-vm

 

[kmmatney]

The SIS730 was known to be a slow chipset. I haven't heard of the 740, but I'm guessing it just the DDR version of the 730. My wife's system is built with the KM133 chipset. This has been very stable, with good performance, and the Savage4 graphics were better than I expected. I imagine that the KM266 would similar, but even faster.

I don't have experince with the N-Force. It will certainly have better graphics, but I'm not sure the performance in 2D will be any better. The $89 ASUS board sure seems like a decent deal, if your even thinking about playing games.

 

[Boonesmi]

personally i would go with the km266

 

[Peter]

Sorry, SiS 740 is much more different from 730 than that. Apart from the obvious DDR RAM support, 740 also has a newer graphics engine (an SiS 315 instead of a 300), which is far superior to KM266's ancient S3 Savage-8 core. Sadly, 740 does not offer an external AGP bus.

regards, Peter

 

[yodayoda]

the nForce rocks. i've got the only uATX 420D mobo, the Abit NV7m. the graphics kick ass, the memory performance is spectacular considering integrated video, and it has sound and video. i picked mine up for $90, which makes it kind of pricey compared the other board, but it is well worth it. there is a 220D based mobo by Asus, but remember that this does not have dual channel DDR, only single channel. with the integrated video taking memory bandwidth, you should go with a 420D chipset nForce.

 

[jachristie79]

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