i810, what were they thinking?

[FrustratedUser]

What was the point of putting out a chipset without AGP port?
They spent millions of $$$ for a dead-end product. Must have been the all-time-dumbest thing to do.
Just my $0.02

 

[RolyL]

It had an AGP video card built-in though. Why does a pension business for example need the capability for high performance graphics? Surely it's better to have a reasonable card onboard and pass the cost-savings on to the consumer? After all, £5 per machine is a lot of money if several thousand machines are going to be bought.

 

[BatmanNate]

It was an extremely low cost and stable solution for consumers without a gaming agaenda would be my guess, but Intel's the one pulling in the bling bling so don't ask me.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Well, yes obviously but then came the i815 which is a far superior product.
Just letting off steam because I have a i810. It is stable as hell though.

 

[Sunner]

Thats funny, I have an i810 at work, and IMO it's utterly useless for any gaming, even tried a bit of Quake1 with it, completely unplayable.

It's been replaced with a PCI V3 now

 

[AndyHui]

Consider the market for which the original i810 chipset was released. It was meant to be a low cost solution targetted towards the low end of the market. If you wanted a proper solution, you were supposed to go with the 440BX or the i820 chipset. If you ignore what happened with the i820, the positioning of the i810 is perfectly fine and superbly does what it was meant to do.