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Your favorite chipset

I'd have to go with the mighty BX. Got my first 440BX early in 1999 and I've still got one running today. I've run 'em with everything from lowly Celerons and PII's to Tualatin PIII's. Without a doubt, the most flexible chipset to date.
 
Here is a vote for an oldie. The intel 430HX which was for socket 5/7 .

I have 1 running for the family with a 400 Mhz(6x66) k63 and 48 MB of SIMMS.

This works fine for dialup , documents , and such.

Jim
 
Oh yeah, 430HX...powered my Abit IT5H with 128MB of thos new fangled EDO DIMMS ....one of the first overclocking motherboards...if not THE first. At least it was first with softmenu...

CxP
 
i440BX ...incredibly old faithful delivering me 1740MHz in the last installation before my A64...no need to upgrade before 🙂
 
Originally posted by: ClockerXP
Oh yeah, 430HX...powered my Abit IT5H with 128MB of thos new fangled EDO DIMMS ....one of the first overclocking motherboards...if not THE first. At least it was first with softmenu...
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First with something labeled "softmenu" in BIOS, but not the first to allow overclocking and not the first to have overclocking features in BIOS. My 386DX-25 was overclocked to 27MHz using a replacement clock crystal. Used to overclock 486 systems using jumpers. Some Shuttle TX chipset socket 7 boards had voltage adjustments in BIOS. QDI had socket 7 boards that were fully adjustable in BIOS.

Of course I could be completely wrong.

Here's another vote for the BX chipset. :thumbsup: I still have my Abit BX133-RAID, the latest and greatest BX chipset board - and yes I've had BH6 and BF6.
 
Nvidia NForce 1 - still using it (and its integrated graphics) on my son's computer. First chipset with decent integrated graphics.
 
I don't have a favorite chipset. Right now I'm running nForce2, nForce3, nForce4-SLI, Intel 875 and Intel 915. They all rock in my book.
 
Originally posted by: kmmatney
Nvidia NForce 1 - still using it (and its integrated graphics) on my son's computer. First chipset with decent integrated graphics.
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I was using KT333 when I bought my first nForce1 mobo. Love at first sight...
 
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nVidia nForce2 chipset. It's performance and amazingly-acceptable integrated video impressed me.
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Performance maybe, but I've never had any personal experience with an NF2 board that I haven't been able to coax into completely erasing the BIOS and rendering the board un-bootable without a BIOS chip replacement by saimply setting memory latency settings incorrectly. It is this chipset that made me very proficient with using a TSOP removal tool and hotflashing... not really skills that I ever wanted to learn, but I had no choice.

I don't think any chipset with such a serious flaw can be considered a great chipset.

I would definitely have to vote for 440BX with many others on this thread.
 
nforce2 is better than nforce1 in every way i believe, so lets stop with the nforce1 voting please, thats nonsense, even if its still running to this day (woopdeedoo)

nforce2/3 are both pretty damn good as far as I'm concerned, I'll vote nforce2 also since it was first and maybe the most revolutionary chipset ever, lets hope for something like that with nforce5

With all you voting BX you make me feel like I should go dig out my PIII system and use it for something! Too bad its not worth anything now, thats why it will fade into the dark night of computer hardware hell and burn with the rest of the gizillion peices of hardware that come and go in their short lives (not to say it wasn't awesome in its day and still runs great)
 
My vote is for the Intel 440GX chipset, I built a computer in 1998 around this chipset (Supermicro P6-DGU) which is still up and running today. This computer is used daily and runs Everquest just fine.

I've upgraded nearly every component but the motherboard over the past six years or so, and quite honestly I don't see much of a speed difference between this system and and my new A64 system for normal everyday windows stuff.

This system was a screamer in 1998-99 with dual-CPU capability, onboard SCSI (9.1GB Cheetah🙂 ) and overall rock-solid performance.

This 440GX based motherboard is nearly 7 years old now. That just blows my mind that this machine still holds it's own.

Anyway, that's my vote.
 
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