SIS 648 or P4PE Motherboard?

[Ynog]

I am planning on building a Pentium 4 machine with DDR.

Which motherboards is better? One with the SIS 648 chipset or the Intel 845 PE.
I am leaning towards either the Gigabyte SIS 648 or the Asus P4PE.

I plan on using the machine for gaming, 3D OpenGL Programming. Also I haven't
overclocked much, but wouldn't also be opposed to doing alittle overclocking.

Also for those that say I should wait for a dual channel DDR chipset, when are they
really being released?

Also if anyone has comments about another Boards, I am open to suggestions.

 

[LouPoir]

Havent had much luck with the SIS648 chipset. Tried the Asus and the Shuttle. The Asus was very unstable with DDR333, and with cCore causing random reboots. The Shuttle ran well at stock speeds with DDR333. But neither overclocks very well.

My experience for what its worth. Going back to my Epox I845G board.

Lou

 

[senior guy]

Insofar as SiS648 boards go, Evan (Anandtech) REALLY LIKES the Gigabyte 8SG667. The AOpen AX45-8XN (a more fully-featured board than the Gigabyte) is reported to be a GEM. On the i845PE front, the Albatron's boards seem to have caught the fancy of many ppl here, and the Asus P4PE (845PE) has received good reviews.

Of the two, I tend to believe that the i845PE is a little more mature and stable chipset (+ it supports hyper-threading), while the SiS648's strengths are that it supports AGP8x (FWIW). and has FireWire integrated into its 963 southbridge. In either case, the most important thing is to get a board that has implemented the chipset properly!