Great Read at Tomshardware

[AGodspeed]

Here's the link.

tomshardware

Tell me what you guys think of the DDR VIA chipset now. Not spectacular but still pretty good, or what?

 

[squirrel dog]

frank and Bert did a very good review.I am looking close at a Iwill DvD266 dual socket p3 board.That review says the fact that unless you dont have that chipset,might as well wait for the next improvement in chipsets.I am still using the bx chipset. The iwill uses an apollo pro chipset,it has raid/ata100,looks fresher than the abit vp6.

 

[Pabster]

If anything that roundup only exacerbates the awesome power of SiS 735. And considering the board can be had for next to nothing (board and a mid-range Duron for around $100 or so)... I'd stay away from KT266, personally. But that's just IMHO.

 

[MadRat]

The inability to jump ahead when you get to Tomshardware's "benchmarks" section of an article makes me avoid his site. He really has very little on each page as it is, but then to make you waste so much time going from page to page is nonsense.

 

[AGodspeed]

No doubt Pabster, I wouldn't touch VIA KT266 while SiS 735 is around.

I'm implying that KT266 will aid DDR in going mainstream, because it's the average chipset of the bunch (no better and no worse) and will be the cheapest. Also important, it's stable. Hopefully a simple BIOS or driver update will suffice once had.

But then again, I won't even consider a chipset until nForce comes out, not even SiS 735. If nForce lives up to the hype, then I'm most definitely in. But if not, SiS 735 is my choice.

 

[Pabster]

AGodspeed wrote:

"But then again, I won't even consider a chipset until nForce comes out, not even SiS 735. If nForce lives up to the hype, then I'm most definitely in. But if not, SiS 735 is my choice."

nForce looks promising, but I'm in the market for another SMP solution. Tyan's S2460 looks far more promising

On the SiS 735 wagon though, it looks to be perfect for an MP3 box I'll be building soon. I can put the entire rig together (mATX case and all) for less than the cost of a certain processor. It doesn't get any better than that