k8t800pro, sis 755...both use pci bus for onboard lan?

[Gulzakar]

so my choices are the sis 755 chipset or the k8t800pro.

I had a question regarding the onboard lan...I know most of the k8t800 boards utilize the pci bus for lan, but I was wondering how the sis 755 chipsets are setup?

anyone have any ideas?

any ideas on some nice overclocking boards?

 

[Wahsapa]

im not sure but i think the sis also uses the pci bus, iv never seen anything to indicate otherwise. i beleive the sis chipset has a faster northbridge-southbridge link tho... and thats about it.

 

[Peter]

Neither has to - both the SiS and VIA south bridges have an integrated 10/100 MAC that does _not_ eat away from PCI bandwidth. It's up to the board vendor whether they use that, or choose to put a PCI based MAC/PHY solution on.

If it's going to be Gbit Ethernet, then it'll have to be on the PCI bus until the new southbridges (SiS 965, VIA xxxx) are here.

 

[orangat]

Originally posted by: Gulzakar
so my choices are the sis 755 chipset or the k8t800pro.

I had a question regarding the onboard lan...I know most of the k8t800 boards utilize the pci bus for lan, but I was wondering how the sis 755 chipsets are setup?

anyone have any ideas?

any ideas on some nice overclocking boards?

I would go for SIS755. I've had too many issues with VIA over the years.
Mostly southbridge problems with UDMA, pci bus mastering/latency/bandwidth problems.
They may have finally solved all that with the pro version but I'd still stay away.

Why don't you consider the NF3-250Gb chipset??

 

[Gulzakar]

I'm going back to win2k and I remember past expereinces with the nforce boards and crappy ide drivers...the standard win2k and winxp ide drivers left a lot to be desired.