found out why FIC is always first out with VIA;s AMD chipset boards

[Remnant2]

booyah!

 

[bonkers325]

via is suck
but hey if u amd fan
what moe can u ask

 

[hans007]

via and fic are both owned by formosa plastics. Same with the memory maker nanya. All basically the same company, lots of taiwanese companies are split into many parts that even bicker with each other. FIC makes good motherboards that are cheap. They are not targeting the enthusiast community they are going for OEM sales (Compaq uses them to build entire systems) which is where the real money is.

 

[HellRaven]

LOL - Sorry Rahvin, as Lxi said you just lost all your credibility when you said:

"Intel handicapped themselves with rambus or I have no doubt they would be 30% faster than any Via solution. 815 is slow because of the MTH."

You can't even seem to be able to distunguish the 820 chipset from the 815. How do you expect us to take your arguments seriously when you don't even know what your talking about?. The 815 has native 133 sdram support. Even it does not beat the bx memory scores. By your logic the 815 should have been much better, when in actuality its scores are about the same as the via chipsets and both lag slightly behind the bx.

 

[andylawcc]

how come he sounds like GUTB....

 

[zzzz]

via chipsets don't overclock as well as the intel one. There was speculation on overclockers.com that AMD somehow influenced via to limit the overclockability..

 

[Fun Guy]

I wish people who were really lonely would just find a friend, or go get laid, rather than put out flamebait threads.

 

[LXi]

zzzz: The VIA chipsets were great for P3 overclocking, just as good as BX or i815E. But true, the KX/T133 werent very good at FSB OCing, but were extremely overclockable if the CPU is unlocked.