What is the best chipset of all time in your opinion?

[secretanchitman]

865PE/875 all the way. one of the best chipsets for sure when paired with a northwood "C" processor. ultimate overclocking and stability for its time.

 

[Lurknomore]

I'm running a Sis 645dx as my main rig and it's been stable so far- 1.8 @ 2.4ghz. Tho I give the credit for stability to the GFTi4200 installed.

My second rig is an NF2 i bought at Radio Shack- It's an AthlonXP 3000 and the chipset runs awful hot, yet it's pretty stable so I'm satisfied. No gaming, though, and its running a Radeon 9550.

Oh, btw, I'm typing this on my sister's Mac.

 

[Steve]

I'm really liking my SiS 748 board, though I have yet to set up this nForce2 board that I've got in storage...

 

[sandeep108]

I used an Asus P3B-F (440BX chipset) / P3-500 for quite a few years - very fast, stable and decent overclocking. But I simply could not get any CD-RW to work on it. I even extended its life by adding an ATA-100 PCI IDE card and it was running fine for basic stuff (and some old games btw - Quake/UT) but just few months ago last year it simply refused to boot and I gave up on it. Upgraded it to Sempron / Via-K8M800.

 

[Jeff7]

440BX was nice in its day. nForce2 also. I have yet to use the nForce4.
Don't know which was "best" - each is only really good within its own era.

 

[MDE]

From my experiences, nForce2, although my i865 box is still running strong.

 

[Stas]

Many vote for 440 just to be "different", "Oh, those teenage noobs think it's all about the new stuff." I vote for nF2

 

[kyparrish]

Originally posted by: biostud
Nforce2 did wonders for AMD.

 

[Stas]

before you get on my case: I went through 6 440 machines (worked fine). I still have 2 of them, with a p3-667 and a cel-433@533.

 

[Knavish]

Originally posted by: spikespiegal
If I recall, the Intel 815 was just a tweak of the BX440, and the 815 was able to run dual processors.

BX was a helluva chipset that's for sure.

There were *very* few i815 boards with 2 CPU sockets. There were lots of 440BX's with two cpu sockets. Anyone remember the Abit BP-6!! I *almost* had that one with 2xCelery 366's @550, but I went with 1x processor instead. I've still got a dual p3-450 in a supermicro mobo.

Anyone else annoyed that there really haven't been any consumer-level dual processor mobos since the 440BX? I think that board convinced Intel to start making dual processor systems for enterprise / serious workstation customers only. Dual core chips are finally starting to bring 2xcpu systems back to the consumer level.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Nforce 2 hands down.

Name one other chipset that had that many features.

It had a fully capable APU that rivaled anything that creative could throw out there. It remains one of the only solutions ever do be able to decode a Dolby Digital 5.1 stream in real time.

The video was the best in the business. While it didn't support DX9, there was nothing that even approached the level of that video.

The memory controller was the best in the business. With dual channel and the ability to OC to unreal levels there was nothing not to like.

440BX was a classic, no doubt. But i dont see how it revolutionized the intel chipsets afterwards. Intel chipsets were always good, 440BX was just another addition to an already successful line of products. Nforce 1/2 was simply a revolution for AMD, and it marked Nvidia extremely successful entrance to the chipset market. (I kind of wish we were back in the days of the Nforce 2 and the AXP and the P4. Hell i still remember my 486SX, and then my Socket 7 Cyrix 150+)

-Kevin

 

[Steve]

The video on nForce2 was not the best in the business. It was a GeForce4 MX, which is a rebadge of the GF2MX, a DX7 chip.

My PC-Chips M847LU has an actual GPU (SiS Xabre 200) with 64MB of its own RAM, at least a DX8 part, and better than any integrated or onboard video solution of that era.

Nothing that even approached that level of video? Text - I'd say it at least keeps up pretty well, much closer than you give it credit for.