i845 Mobo Roundup @ FiringSquad

[GTaudiophile]

Linky

 

[Migroo]

Thanks GTaudiophile.

Hmm... since Intel boards have supported DDR ram, the 'which CPU' debate has been raging in my head.

<-- About to upgrade

Anyway lets have a look at these i845 boards. Thanks

 

[GTaudiophile]

The most important sentence in the article:

Intel has proven itself as the leader for stability and performance and many have even labeled the i845 as the new BX chipset. With i845, it's all about tried and true technology, not bleeding edge design.

i845-B is just around the corner. Actually, I bet Anand's initial mobo roundup is almost finished. My plan is to begin construction on an i845-B/Northwood 2.0Ghz computer in mid-January.

 

[NFS4]

<< The most important sentence in the article:

Intel has proven itself as the leader for stability and performance and many have even labeled the i845 as the new BX chipset. With i845, it's all about tried and true technology, not bleeding edge design.

i845-B is just around the corner. Actually, I bet Anand's initial mobo roundup is almost finished. My plan is to begin construction on an i845-B/Northwood 2.0Ghz computer in mid-January. >>


The i845 is far from the "BX of today" in its current form. With PC133, it lags behind in comparison to the competing P4 platforms, and only time will tell how the i845-DDR will compare with the SiS645 and P4X333 which both support DDR333.

So unless the i845 can offer performance rivaling the two aforementioned chipsets, stability, and reasonable price like the 440BX, then no way will i845-DDR be its sucessor. The 440BX was the UNDISPUTED king of stability and peformance, and was even when the i815 came out.

 

[Adul]

I don't understand why people are even calling it the BX of today either? It is a low performing part unlike the BX chipset and unlike the BX chipset, this version of the i845 wont be around to long.

 

[Adul]

oh, yawn....

 

[ALstonLoong]

too bad the review doesnt included abit mobo

 

[SUOrangeman]

Could the i845 (DDR or no DDR) just be the latest attempt to keep "Intel Inside" regardless of performance? Have consumers big and small caught on?

Just for the record, my company gives employees new office machines every three years. The currently PC is a Dell P4-2G with 512MB of SDRAM. Yep, I'm thinking i845. They do offer a more powerful "workstation" model from Dell that is a P4-2G with 256MB RDRAM, but has U-160 SCSI throughout (73GB SCSI HD versus 40GB EIDE in the basic model). Guess which one I'm getting in 15 or so months? 😛

-SUO