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

[SoundTheSurrender]

still using my nforce 2!

 

[neovan]

I loved my 440BX. I have it sitting around but not powered up.

 

[Maximilian]

I dont like any chipsets. Never had good/bad issues with any of them, even ones people have labelled as sub-standard.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

440BX. Definately. 1 chipset to rule them all. I went through sooo many upgrades and all the boards had the BX My Abit bx6 rev 2 that I could over clock the snot out of. several BP6 Dual celery's. The BX was around for a long time and remains my favorite chipset. Nowadays it seems a new chipset is out every other month or some update to it has been made. The 440BX was the same from begining to end.

 

[Luckyboy1]

I voted other.

that's because I go for whatever works best in a given application, programming and overall usage environment rather than one pat answer to fit all.

 

[Zepper]

When the tale is finally told, the ULi chipsets that came out just before nVidia acquired ULi from Acer will be recognized for the great chips they are.

.bh.

 

[F1shF4t]

I cant believe people are voting for the nforce4 chipset, outright its pretty awfull, runs hot even with active cooling, and i heard of quite a few bugs with them, even though i have never experianced any myself, well had a few crashed due to heat

Never used a 440BX, chipset so got no idea how that one went, same as nforce 2, but that was for athlons Xp's, and i hate athlon xp's so even if its good i would never touch it.

The 865PE chipset was great on asus boards since u could make it work like a 875 chipset easily plus it was not running close to melting temps like the nforce4 is.
Lol i'm using nforce 4 chipset and i'm dissing it lol

 

[CrispyFried]

440BX - you just knew that whatever you built around it would work, work well and work for a long long time.

 

[eXx08]

ULi although don't know which one.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: Opteron Guy
ULi although don't know which one.

M1695 if you meant the PCI-E/AGP combo chipset.

 

[slpaulson]

BX440 was a great chipset.

Nforce2 was also great.

 

[Zebo]

1. AMD Hammer IMC - No Mem clocks as high as on AMD Hammer IMC - blew 875 all to hell... At least 30 more Mhz possible and tighter timings with same sticks.


2. Nforce2 - Real time 3d audio decoder/encoder with DD, fastest on-board video ever and rock solid. Nothing since has been as full featured.

 

[OSX]

Originally posted by: EndGame
440BX by far. Problem is, there are most likely quite a few people around in here now that are to young to remember or even have any knowledge working with the 440BX..........

Luckily enough, I have a 440BX powered ASUS P2B-S sitting right next to me.

A rock solid chipset, not to mention the hardware is dirt cheap nowadays. My P2B-S cost a whole 12$, with the Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI chipset onboard. The PII/PIII are fine for most people, just as long as you don't do any gaming, or anything really processor intensive.

 

[modedepe]

I voted 440BX, though...

Originally posted by: biostud
Nforce2 did wonders for AMD.

This is extremely true. Also a great chipset...close second.

 

[Snooper]

440Bx. Period. That chipset was THE definitive chipset. It changed the way chipsets were designed and implemented. Revolutionary actually wouldn't be over stating it.

What's funny about this is that I was walking around the Santa Clara offices today and happened to walk past the chipset design group area and though about how everything they have done in the last 7-8 years has been based on that old, original 440BX chipset.

And then tonight after getting home I see this pole! Nice timing!

 

[essasin]

nforce 2 since I tinker around with amd. It helped start amd push for the crown.

 

[SlitheryDee]

nuthah vote for nforce2. I'm a relative youngster to some here, seeing as my first comp was an HP pentium 75mhz. Every rig afterwards was an AMD machine so I can't speak for intel's chipsets. I can say that the nforce2 chipset was head and shoulders above every other amd chipset that I have ever used in every feature that mattered. Overclocking, stability, SOUNDSTORM, all this has been mentioned but I don't think it's been (or can be) mentioned enough.

 

[RebateMonger]

440BX.

I was able to use my six Abit BF6 motherboards (440BX chipset)with processors all the way from the first P2-233 up to P3-1GHz. As well as both Slot 1 and Socket 370 processors. Many people added cheap adapters and used even higher-speed Celeron and P3 processors. (That's like using a single 875-chipset board with both Socket 478 and Socket 775 processors ranging from 2.0 GHz up to 10GHz. I doubt that's going to happen.)

Too bad all my BF6 motherboards failed eventually due to leaking capacitors, or I'd probably STILL be using them.

 

[Green Man]

440BX was the greatest chipset. Intel still lives on its reputation.

A close second was AMD 750. Revolutionary for it's time and spanked all competitors far beyond when it was supposed to be replaced. So, spike spiegal...wtf? Maybe you are thinking about the VIA south bridge (686B?) that was often paired with the AMD northbridge?

 

[SlitheryDee]

If you could take all those nforce4 votes and put them on nforce2 since they were probably voted for the same reasons then I think the poll would be more accurate IMO. I mean PCI-E? It's nice but that's practically the only difference between nforce4 and nforce3. Hardly a hallmark of the "all time best chipset". The main difference between nforce3 and nforce2 is the excellent nvidia memory controller, which isnt' required because of the integrated memory controller of the A64. Latest and greatest does not = all time best (at least that's my opinion).

 

[Arcanedeath]

Gotta Say BX is the best of all time I still have systems i built using BX boards runing as office machines w/ p3s and some of them started w/ p2 266's Nforce 2 is prolly the next best but BX is the one to rule them all

 

[w00t]

Intel 875P

 

[Acanthus]

I440BX, no question.

 

[SuperSix]

Intel makes the best chipsets, period.

If AMD mass-produced chipsets (not just to get the ODM's rolling), I would consider running an AMD proc.

Intel chipset stability FTW!

 

[rstrohkirch]

440bx