Performance between VIA and IntelBX?

[steimm]

Hi!

Can anyone tell me why there is so great difference between VIAPro133A chipset and Intel BX chipset in performance?

I've got a Asus P3V4X and a Gigabyte GA-BX2000 and with the Asus I can get the CPU (PIII700E) up to 1008MHz stable and with the Gigabyte I get it to 933MHz (can't get it higher), but when I test it with 3DMark2001 I get a difference of +300pts advantage to Gigabyte - Why?

Everyone that I've talked to says the same - BX gives better performance! Why? What's the benefit of VIAPro133A Chipset?

thx

/steimm

 

[Vegito]

VIA gives you up to 133FSB but the memory benchmark sucks thus slowing everything down, a BX chipset, old but very fast. VIA isn't that great but their newer chipset are faster...

 

[Athlon4all]

BX when Oced to a 133fsb, beats every Pentium III chipset, except in some case for 840 with Dual PC800. It is a great chipset. Oh, and te reason for 133A is that at the time, there was no platform for the new 133fsb Pentium III's except for the dreaded 820, 133A is cheaper to produce still than 815, but 815 performs often better.