do you hate via and why?

[DAPUNISHER]

<< If you use AMD CPUs; there is really no choice except VIA. >>


I have to respectfully disagree with you on that point. That statement was true a year ago perhaps but SiS, Nvidia, and ALI all currently have (or will release shortly) chipsets which offer performance very close to Via's offerings.

 

[bowie71]

I don't hate VIA chipset, I just want something different, that's why I choose SiS735 cause ALIMagiK, AMD and NVidia chipsets seems to expensive for me. I'm waiting SiS746 launched in the market, this one is gonna ROCK!! as hard as my SiS735.

 

[BadThad]

Like AMD, VIA is a great company to have around...I love them. They spur intel and the others to keep producing better chipsets, competition is good for consumers.

 

[Quetzalboat]

I use a VIA MoBo, had a problem with SB Live at the beginning, but it's solved with an updated sound driver from Creative website.
But I read some posts in this forum [video section], that VIA chipset is not 'so compatible' [and it means that there's some problem] with NVidia GeForce series. It's said about the "south bridge" or something.
But I do not know if that problem was solved or still unsolved?

 

[BillZad]

We here in the USA read from left to right,Intel is here in the good ol USA,and VIA is over in the Orient somewhere,they read backwards up & down, Geez go figure!!?? Maybe that's why their M/B's need tweeking all
the time to make them work properly,maybe they should keep there's over there and ours over here??!! Sure VIA boards are FAST!,but what about COMPATIBLE!? You Get What U Pay For!! Nuff said! Go Intel!!

 

[AA0]

at least with a VIA chipset you can run a V5, can't with intel, can you?

 

[DaiShan]

I wouldn't say hate, but I really dislike now, I bought this kt7a in august and it has taken me this long to search for something that would allow it to work with any form of network and usb. it would always lockup when I had a usb device hooked up, I tried all the 4 in 1's everything until I was pointed to usbman.com, then I found some patches that solved my problem, the bottom line is via needs to make their product work out of the box, most users would go searching through the net and tech support forums for 5 months.

 

[ssanches]

<< We here in the USA read from left to right,Intel is here in the good ol USA,and VIA is over in the Orient somewhere,they read backwards up & down, Geez go figure!!?? Maybe that's why their M/B's need tweeking all
the time to make them work properly,maybe they should keep there's over there and ours over here??!! Sure VIA boards are FAST!,but what about COMPATIBLE!? You Get What U Pay For!! Nuff said! Go Intel!! >>



You say VIA boards aren't "compatible". What do you mean by compatible? I've been using mobos based on VIA chipsets since the VIA VPX and have yet to see "incompatibilities". The only thing is the cloud surrounding the SBLive-on-VIA issue. However I've seen these SBLive cards demonstrate the same issues on non-VIA chipset boards like ALi and SiS.

As for the argument of VIA being in Taiwan and Intel in the US, that's moot. Most semicoductor companies are in Taiwan. FYI 90% of all mobos are made in Taiwan. If those folks could not read, they wouldn't be making consumer electronics.

 

[newbiepcuser]

I've used VIA for both the Intel and AMD platform, no probs. I didn't run into any SB live issues either, I guess I just got lucky.

 

[PandaBear]

I had a MVP3 board with a USB mouse and a USB printer. It crash everytime when I print. Later I found that it is a USB problem in the VIA chipset that is still in the later model.

 

[Swanny]

I like Via. They've never caused me any grief.

 

[jiffylube1024]

I had both an ASUS P3V4X (VIA chipset) and an ASUS CUSL2 (Intel i815) (2 of the best P3 motherboards). Both were great mobos, very very stable and I liked them both a lot. HOWEVER, I had some DMA problems on the P3V4X which were annoying (I couldn't enable DMA on the DVD drive without tweaking and thus couldn't watch DVD movies for awhile). I finally fixed the DMA problem and it worked great, but as was said earlier, I also belive that Intel motherboards work "out of the box" whereas VIA motherboards require some tweaking. Personally, I preffer Intel motherboards slightly, however I have built many (around 10) systems for different people with VIA chipsets (mainly Athlons) and continue to recommend Athlons with VIA chipsets. However, when using Intel CPU's, Intel motherboards are almost always better.