SiS 735 Chipset

[salman327]

I was just wondering if anyone knew when we're gonna see some mobos using this chipset, I know chaintech was gonna come out w/ one as well as Leadtek, but does anybody know when????????????

 

[bevo]

September or October...

 

[Playmaker]

Are you serious? Anyone confirm that the date is truly that far off?

 

[salman327]

I just saw a preview of a test board that had the 735 chipset, it was just a test board that came from SiS directly, and wasn't manufactured by any mobo maker. It beat out all the boards they put up against it, and it didn't even have the added performance that a mobo maker will add to the chipset

 

[chainbolt]

I think September or October is a good idea. To beat all other chipset? LET's SEE!
They said the same about the KT266 chipset( V-Link etc) and now?

 

[goul]

I really hope its not that far off

well I guess we'll see

 

[Peter]

Some of you might hate to hear this, but PC-Chips once again is first to market with an SiS chipset based mainboard.

They introduced their "700MR" SiS 635 P-III board a few weeks ago, now they have their 830LR SiS 735 Athlon board.

http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M830LR.html

As usual, sound and LAN onboard and AMR modem riser included (all driven by SiS 735) - 5 PCI and 1 AGP, SDRAM and DDR slots.

regards, Peter

 

[salman327]

2 freaking dimms? I think i'll wait till Asus, MSI, or Epox come out w/ a board based on this chipset. I think time will only tell how well this thing competes w/ the other chipsets. But if that preview I posted has any truth to it...man oh man this is going to be one sweet new rig!

 

[budgie63]

Salman, how much RAM do you wanna fit? With the price of RAM at the moment, 2 Dimms will easily give you 512MB. Surely that's enough.

 

[Peter]

512-MByte SDRAM DIMMs are available and cheap too, so those two slots take you up to 1 GByte, which normally should do.

Sure, once the SDRAM-DDR transition has been fully done, fewer and fewer boards will have both types of slots, making room for more DIMM slots.

Anyone remember the transition from PS/2 SIMMs to DIMMs? Same situation, early boards had four SIMM and one DIMM slot, then later only two SIMM slots and two DIMM, until finally the SIMM slots vanished altogether and made room for three or four DIMM slots.

So, if you're updating gradually, move your existing SDRAM over, and if you're building from scratch, then buy ONE large DDR DIMM and still have room for another one.

regards, Peter

 

[intelbugger]

Chaintech are already out with their 735 board, CSID is the item code. The site provides as little info as possible. With 735 trays shipping at $27 per chipset, m/bs should be far cheaper than amd 760 and the like. The performance is just awesome as per benchmarks. I'm just waiting for it to get my new pc.ChaintechCSID

 

[intelbugger]

<< I think September or October is a good idea. To beat all other chipset? LET's SEE!
They said the same about the KT266 chipset( V-Link etc) and now? >>



V-link is not very good. The bandwidth is 266 MB/s. Sis's architecture boasts of a 1.2 GB/s bus. They only couldn't dig up a fancy name like Via and ended up calling it multi-threaded I/O or something like that. Marketing's where Sis will fall back. Their Website says ' We innovate. We own advanced fab '. I wouldn't call it a good slogan