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WoW MSI SiS 645 $72!

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human2k

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Just ordered mines, hope its as good as tomshardware said it was! It also perfomed in top position in most benchmarks! Makes the $130 Retail 1.6A + SiS645 idea seem so attractive.😀
 
Geared

While their chipsets do suck a fat one, that dosn't mean they dont work. I'm sure any chipset running a P4 at 2.4ghz is by no means going to make for a slow computer. Performance wise SiS has nothing, but stability is something they do have. If it works it works, and if your happy with it, who cares.
 
This is a broad generalization.
And I am not talking benchmarks either.
I put two AMD systems together, one with the SIS 735 and one with a KT266-A, and they feel they same. All the other components are nearly identical.

I cannot feel the 5% performance difference between the SIS and the KT.

I know you are talking Intel chipsets, but a generalization like that will almost never be true.
 


<< SIS makes bad, very bad chipsets. >>



It`s not the chipset that you use but the board you pick,some companies like Epox,MSI,Asus are good at making boards on any chipset whether it be SiS,VIA,or Intel,yes I`ve had all those chipsets and stability has been excellent on all 3.



human2k that`s a good board you`ve chosen so you will be ok 🙂.
 


<< Well, is the SIS 645 their, er, first good chipset? He-he. I wouldn't trust the first 'good' chipset made by the company with previously bad reputation. And are you sure it's not going to be their last good one? >>



So, you've had NO experience with SIS chipsets and why should anyone believe ANYTHING you say about it?

I have an ECS K7S5A board w/ an SIS chipset and I have the MSI Ultra 645 (also with an SIS chipset). both are VERY stable and VERY fast. as noted above I've even oc'd my P4 w/ the MSI Ultra 645 board. Of course your opinion with ABSOLUTELY no experience is much more believable I'm sure.

You remind me of all those Best Buy techs that tried to Convince me that Intel CPU's were more compatible than AMD CPU's when the Athlon first came out.
 
A lot of the bad SIS reputation out there is because not very many brands adopt their chipsets. I'm sure the 735 would have been much better, if a more performance based motherboard company would have used it in one of thier boards. That is why the 645 seems like such a winner. Most of the big peformance based companies are using it in one of their motherboards. Another good motherboard that someone may want to look at is the Gigabyte SIS645 based motherboard. It is very nice and has all kinds of settings. I wouldn't trust Tom's Hardware Guide's review on this because the one they are using isn't even the one that Mwave sells, although it didn't get any bad press from THG anyways. It is ony $74 from Mwave.
 


<< SIS makes bad, very bad chipsets. They barely work, IMVHO. That's why the price is so low. You get what you paid for. I'm sure you will regret your SIS-based purchase a thousand times. Better cancel that offer as quick as you can! And don't tell me about all those 'official' benchmarks! I'm not running the apps they run, and though they tell us that SIS looks great, I know that for me it's gonna be a real dissapointment. Low performance, numerous stability and compatibility issues, the lack of driver support are abound with SIS chipsets. You'd be better off paying a little more an getting an i845D-based rig! >>



Dude You are highly misinformed...I am running a Asus P4S333 Mobo and it runs my 1.6A @ 2.4 gig rock solid stable


Ausm
 
geared... i think you have been living in the cave for last... how many months?
SIs645 is on par with Intel + Rambus, if you have been reading reviews.
 
The last bad SIS chipset I can remember were Socket 7 ones (530?, especially mobos made by PCChips), I guess thats the extent of geared's experience with SIS chipsets🙂.
 
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