SiS 648 - Hyperthreading Capable?

[Fionavar]

I have just read Intel's plan with Hyperthreading and I was wondering if anyone knows if SIS' new chipset is going to be able to support Hyperhtreading for P4s - if not what chipset is? Thanks ahead of time. Peace.

 

[Chadder007]

The Intel 845E is with BIOS updates, the 850E and all other future chipselts from intel......just not the 845G that is currently out. D"OHH!

 

[GoodRevrnd]

This may be reason #2 SiS announced the 648DX chipset.

 

[corkyg]

I don't know about hyperthreading, but Asus has just announced a new mobo for the P4 using the SiS 648 chipset.

?The P4S8X is the first motherboard to provide AGP 8X and Serial ATA connectors. With the SiS 648 chipset, the ASUS P4S8X supports latest 533MHz front side bus and Pentium 4 processors up to 2.53GHz and beyond. In addition to supporting high-bandwidth DDR 333, unique MuTIOLT technology increases the bus speed between the northbridge and southbridge to 1GB/sec, for enhanced system performance.?

 

[Fionavar]

Originally posted by: GoodRevrnd
This may be reason #2 SiS announced the 648DX chipset.

Actually the 648DX is the official support for DDR 400 - this is the chipset I want to go with, but I do not want to be crippled w/o Hyperthreading support if that makes sense

BTW thanks everyone for you help so far. Peace.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Originally posted by: Fionavar

Originally posted by: GoodRevrnd
This may be reason #2 SiS announced the 648DX chipset.

Actually the 648DX is the official support for DDR 400 - this is the chipset I want to go with, but I do not want to be crippled w/o Hyperthreading support if that makes sense

BTW thanks everyone for you help so far. Peace.

True, but did we have a full release on it yet? If they were going to enable hyperthreading in a chip I would think this would be the one.
You'll note I said this may be reason #2, reason #1 being the full DDR400 support.

 

[Fionavar]

Yeah that might make sense GoodRevrnd. I have emailed SiS and ASUS to get something official since there seems to be no clear answer in this regard.