Intel Strikes back with i845 !!! :-((

[mazzy]

Hi,
The first reviews about i845 and VIA P4X266 against i850 tell us the story.
The Intel strikes back with i845, after the crippled i815 chipset the blu guys have do it again.

The performance of i845 are ridiculous low.
The P4X266 is a good one on the paper but about stability/copatibility ?
after the terrible issue with HD and live! card, can you trust in Via ?

My P3 933MHz on cusl2 will outperform the p4 1.5Ghz on i845 in all office benchmark, and maybe even in Quake 3 (the most favorable test for P4).
I've only a GF2 MX and I've no found any comparable reference test still.
the fps are unimpressive at best.

I refuse to buy a single RDRAM stick whatever intel tell me.
I'd enjoy a RAMBUS bankruptcy.

The tualatin clocked at 1.5Ghz with 512KB L1 cache will kick ass everything big time: Low power dissipation, stable Mobo, cheap memory, it will simply destroy AMD if priced around $200.
with it you shouldn't to have reason to buy Athlon, no better performance no lower price cpu+mobo+memory, fabulous stability and compatibility.

Instead Intel offer a crippled i845/P4 that have hard time against a year old p3 933/SDRAM.

I'm tired of Intel and your insane politic.
It's time to a big tournaround inside the company, with a lot of fired!!

What a hell, AMD do your chipsets for Athlon and sell it, don't wastle your fait into VIA and your crappy chips.

Can we will see again a chipset like the i440BX matched with a Pentium II a day ?

 

[Jumpem]

I'm going with the Intel 850 chipset boards with the new 478-pin socket. Why on earth would anyone get a Via board for a P4??! Intel chipsets are the most compelling reason to get a P4. If I wanted Via problems I'd save money and get a Thunderbird.

 

[cnwk64]

VIA for sure is not a making best chipset in the world.
but at least give you an option to use DDR memory,
unlike Intel, which FORCE you to use RDRAM if you want to
run P4 at reasonalbe performance.
Once the i845 chipset ALLOW you to use DDR, there will be SIS with
DDR 333. and which one will you buy?

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Jumpem - never thought about it that way... You're right.

 

[Athlon4all]

You know, we knew 845 was going to be bad, but the thing that I was just so disappointed is that how Intel obviously crippled 845, in the cachemem latency benchmark, 845 was 2 cycles higher then the supposedly high latency RAMBUS 850 chipset and then P4X, oh looky here is 20 somethin cycles lower than the SDR baed 845 and RDRAM Based 850. That just makes me sick, but again why should I be suprised. I am a person that hasn't had any trouble with ViA, so I probably would buy a P4X/SiS 645 mobo over 850.

 

[WetWilly]

I refuse to buy a single RDRAM stick whatever intel tell me.

I'm surprised insane hasn't hunted you down yet. Even if you bought a single RDRAM stick it'd be useless in an Intel mobo since you have to install them in pairs

As for the 845, only Intel could get away with releasing something that poor and have every mobo manufacturer beg them for as many 845 as they can get..

I haven't had any VIA problems either, but I'd definitely wait for the SiS 645 board since SiS' memory controller looks better than VIA's, plus there's PC2700 DDR support there already. Since the 645 is sampling this month and in mass production next month, based on how fast ECS got their SiS 735 board out I'd guess we'll start to see 645 boards in late September or October.

Then again, if I'm waiting 'til September/October, I'd wait to see how far those 1.5GHz desktop Palominos can crank up to.