SIS 745 Chipset?

[Prince of Persia]

Any reviews or info on this?
There's a deal going on and my friend wants to know about this mobo(which has sis745 chipset) and I haven't heard anything about it.

http://www.econopc.com/applications/search/itemdetails.asp?sku=MCASA7SX22&sc=pr

 

[Iron Woode]

Did you check out the MSI version? MSI 745 Ultra.

It is a decent board, with decent performance. It supports up to XP2600+ and is the improved version of SIS 735 chipset.

It runs DDR only.

You may find more info by searching google.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

The SiS745 is a quickly aging chipset that was never stellar against it's competition to begin with and with parcel post(10-14 days) shipping the price for that combo is 193.23 to your door. My advice is get the SOLTEK SL-75FRN-L Nforce2 board and XP 2100+ T-Bred Retail from Newegg for 196$ shipped free FedEx saver and have a much better overall performance combo for $3 more. BTW just a mild overclock that 2100+ can do@default voltage with no effort will make it an even better value. If he hasn't bought ram yet then remember to get to sticks instead of 1 to take advantage of the DC-DDR, and if he has 2100 or 2700DDR already this'll squeeze the most performance out of them 🙂

 

[Peter]

745 didn't become too popular because it didn't have LAN included (but Firewire, which was quite useless at the time this chipset came out). This is why 735 is still going strong on the low end (the SDRAM reusing audience). Now 746(FX) is just hitting the shelves, with LAN, FireWire, USB2, 166 MHz CPU bus support, so please continue ignoring 745 🙂

 

[Tectron]

I have a MSI 745 ultra I bought new for $30 on clearence, It was the best bang for the buck Ive ever gotten in a MB. Duron 1.1 running at 166X7 @ default voltage completely stable.

 

[Cerb]

The 745 actually does perform quite well against the competition (check the tom's athlon chipsets article), but you can get much better much cheaper now. Right now, an NF2 (Soltek and Epox are getting nice followings) board would be better bang for the buck, and even better for the money would be the ECS L7S7A2 (bang for the buck, not toal bang).