Would anyone trust ALI or SIS chipsets?

[jaydee]

Against AMD or VIA on an Athlon platform.

 

[gregdee]

I have hopes for ALi. I've been running an overclocked K6-2 on an ASUS P5A (Alladin 5) for a year and a half and the machine is incredible stable (better than my Celeron on an LX). Yes they had AGP problems but their memory performance and stability is better than VIA's super 7 chipset. If they've gotten their act together with regards to AGP this could be a great chipset. Of course only time will tell. As for the SIS chipset, it will most likely be a 'value' chipset used by OEMs with Durons.

Anyone agree?

 

[Cruisin1]

I agree totally with everything Greg said. I first had an ASUS P5A, uses the ALI Alladin V chipset. It was the better ss7 chipset when the k6-2s came out. The problem was in the agp driver though, it just wasn't that compatible with newer video cards. I hope Ali has dilluted these issues and can release a pimp arse ddr chipset, cause frankly I don't really want to get a via chipset! hehe

 

[NforSa]

ALi's chipset could be good... my last system was also based on a P5-A, I ran a K6-2 350 @ 460mhz (115mhz * 4 @ 2.6v) rock solid for over a year!

The later P5-A bios versions fixed the AGP problems, (or maybe I was just lucky) coz my vidoe card was a Viper V770 32mb AGP Ultra (TNT2U).

anyway, the SIS chipset will probably be stable anough, just slow :|

 

[arthurb1]

Isn't Iwill the only manuf. using the Ali chipset? If so, then no thanks. I want my 760...mmmm dual (oc'd I hope )tbird's with DDR RAM...yummm.

 

[gregdee]

Wow - I'm not used to so many people actually agreeing with me! That said, I'm sure the AMD chipset will be the best because like Intel the chip manufacturer usually makes the best chipset for their chip! I don't think too highly of VIA chipsets they just were in a position to capitalize on Intels mistakes with i820 and Rambus and seemed to be AMD's chosen partner for the Athlon but that may be changing as well.

 

[Mday]

it depends on how the chipset is. I mean, it's not the company i care about, it's the performance and compability and functions supported by the chipset. and we cannot forget about stability.

remember, intel's venture into chipset world has not exactly been long. they've only been doing it for several generations of x86. their best is bx, and previous chipsets had problems. the vx could only use 64MB of RAM.

the most important thing is in the first paragraph of this post.

 

[sandorski]

I would trust them both, but would only get the ALI if those were my 2 choices. SIS chipsets are very good cheap chipsets, but they like to integrate too many functions onboard for my liking.