The longest lasting chipset?

[BigToque]

Which chipset has lasted the longest in the market?

Is it the BX?

 

[fkloster]

i820! (Jeez just kiddin'! Relax )

 

[Charay]

BX all the way baby!!

 

[BigToque]

The BX has been out since when? 97?

how long did the chipsets from intel last that were used on Socket 7 mobo's?

 

[bernse]

Didn't the HX last quite a while too?

 

[konichiwa]

i440-BX without a doubt. It had so many BIOS updates and motherboard revisions I lost track. But hopefully the i815e will be the same way.

 

[dszd0g]

How do you define longest lasting?

How long it is still sold on the market? Some of Intel's i430 chipsets are still sold. They were released in 95-96 I believe?

How long it is still popular on the market? i440BX

How long it is still in use? There are still people using some really old machines. I wouldn't even try to guess this one.

 

[NFS4]

BX BABY!!

 

[utopia]

Yap BX

 

[Ausm]

BX is definately the longest lasting chipset..

Ausm

 

[AndyHui]

Definitely BX. 440FX lasted a very long time too.....Support for the PPro in 1995 all the way to the early PIIs in 1997.

 

[TGCid]

Another vote for the BX

 

[hans007]

The 440FX is really long lasting, with a power leap adapter you can still run a celeron 700 in it. Personally i think the 430HX is the longest lasting. It came out when socket 7 came out i think 6 years ago. If you have a ASUS t2p4 motherboard with that chipset , you can still use a k6-2+ in it today.

 

[Rankor]

I'd vote for the iBX, although the iHX comes in a close second. And I'd probably put in a vote for the MVP3 chipset also.

I preferred the iHX over the iTX and obviously over the iVX chipset. (The iHX) was essentially a server chipset w/c supported up to 512 MB of RAM and dual proc support.