Tom's Hardware reviews SIS 658/659 RDRAM chipset!

[RanDum72]

LINK.

But it looks like the venerable Intel 850E chipset still rules...

 

[MistaTastyCakes]

The data transfer rate of just under 3 GB/s trails way behind the theoretically possible rate of 4.8 GB/s.

Ouch.. that's pretty disappointing. 850E, 845PE, or SiS 648/655 can beat that, and these are all (cept for the SiS chipsets) fairly mature.

 

[fkloster]

Originally posted by: MistaTastyCakes

The data transfer rate of just under 3 GB/s trails way behind the theoretically possible rate of 4.8 GB/s.

Ouch.. that's pretty disappointing. 850E, 845PE, or SiS 648/655 can beat that, and these are all (cept for the SiS chipsets) fairly mature.

It is normal for the peak bandwidth to not be 100% realized in synthetic or real world tests. It has been that way ever since i820.

 

[GrumpyMan]

It's good to see that my P4T533-C still takes alot of the benchmarks. I think I'll hold on to it for a while longer until something more interesting comes out. Tom has that the P4T533-C can do a fsb of 166 but that is not so, it only goes to 156, must be a typo.

 

[MistaTastyCakes]

It is normal for the peak bandwidth to not be 100% realized in synthetic or real world tests. It has been that way ever since i820.

Oh, I know.. I was meaning, in comparions to benchmarks for other P4 solutions, it was under par. Kind of a relative comparison sorta thing 🙂

 

[RanDum72]

Its a fairly new chipset so who knows what a couple of BIOS updates/chipset revisions down the road can do?

 

[Redviffer]

Yeah, I'm still partial to RDRAM and I hope they can get the bugs fixed on this. Multiple options are always good, and did you see the price you *should* save just in chipset costs alone? Wow.

Now all we need is for Rambus to keep their heads out of their @SS and we should be good to go.