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So Anands 865 review is up ... with so-so results...

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Looks good but that memory snag makes me kinda want to stay away. I don't think I should have to buy new memory just because I get a new mobo... Intel should know better!!! Hopefully they can get it resolved (BIOS update?) because that new 800Mhz FSB Shuttle XPC uses the 865 and I'd like to get it without worry that'll I need to buy new memory too....
 
Toms hardware showed a much smaller difference between the 865 and 875P chipsets. How much of the performance difference in the AT review was due to the slower memory timings on the 865?

I'm not willing to buy that all motherboard/memory combinations will suffer from this problem yet.
 
Darnit... we're back to a server issue with this review... doom3 all over again. I think a few subscriber servers should run a mirror of the main-page.
 
The 865 looks like a great chipset for 533 FSB -- if I were putting together a system today I'd think hard about 865 with a 533 FSB P4 and 1 GB of DDR333 RAM instead of 875 with 800 FSB and 512 MB of high-priced DDR400.
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
The 865 looks like a great chipset for 533 FSB -- if I were putting together a system today I'd think hard about 865 with a 533 FSB P4 and 1 GB of DDR333 RAM instead of 875 with 800 FSB and 512 MB of high-priced DDR400.
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...at least until I read the 2.4 - 2.8C benhcmarks at Toms. The 2.6 at $260 and 2.8 at $313 are about as fast as the old 2.8 and 3.0 533 FSB parts, and the 2.8 beats down the AMD 3200+ for $145 less. The extra $60 for 875 and 1GB of DDR400 (vs. 865 and DDR333) seems like a better deal now.

 
Dang it, I just don't know about getting that intel based Shuttle now, especially with the new 400Mhz FSB Nforce2 based Shuttle XPC out now too.... Hmmm desicions decisions
 
...and the review at Tom's shows that MSI has one-upped Asus on mobo benchmark cheating with their new stealth overclocking. I can't tell from Tom's artcile whether there is any way to disable this "feature."
 
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