VIA's PT800 and SiS's 648FX Chipsets
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 08/11/2003 01:46 PM [ Print | 2 comment(s) ] · 1637 views
The Tech Report have thrown up their VIA's PT800 and SiS's 648FX Chipsets Review! which asks the question can these single-channel chipsets solution from Via and SIS compete with Intel's 800MHz dual-channel chipsets? Here's a snip.
The most striking thing about our benchmark results is, undoubtedly, the eye-opening performance of the VIA PT800 chipset. Even in places where we expected a single-channel solution to lag?3D gaming, speech recognition, video encoding?the PT800 excels. The PT800 is generally faster than Intel's 865PE chipset, and it gives the 875P a run for its (copious amounts of) money. No, the PT800 isn't the world-beater that the 875P is, but VIA is expected to deliver a dual-channel chipset before long to contend for that title.
The PT800 is meant to do battle in the broad mainstream of the market, and VIA has the 865PE's number. Single-channel motherboards are generally cheaper and easier to design and manufacture, so I'd expect to see very affordable PT800-based boards that mop the floor with stock 865PE boards.
VIA's PT800 and SiS's 648FX Chipsets
The most striking thing about our benchmark results is, undoubtedly, the eye-opening performance of the VIA PT800 chipset. Even in places where we expected a single-channel solution to lag?3D gaming, speech recognition, video encoding?the PT800 excels. The PT800 is generally faster than Intel's 865PE chipset, and it gives the 875P a run for its (copious amounts of) money. No, the PT800 isn't the world-beater that the 875P is, but VIA is expected to deliver a dual-channel chipset before long to contend for that title.
The PT800 is meant to do battle in the broad mainstream of the market, and VIA has the 865PE's number. Single-channel motherboards are generally cheaper and easier to design and manufacture, so I'd expect to see very affordable PT800-based boards that mop the floor with stock 865PE boards.
VIA's PT800 and SiS's 648FX Chipsets
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Denniss Posts: 44 Joined: 2002-08-13 |
#46152 Posted on: 08/11/2003 05:50 PM
I don't believe a performance achievable with only one memory stick - according to the roundup this VIa reference board gets instable with two sticks |
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Mertsch Senior Member Posts: 2708 Joined: 2002-08-22 |
#46153 Posted on: 08/11/2003 06:24 PM
seems that VIA is out of buiss ..... even month later they cannot beat the actual chipset .... if intel or AMD ..... I just wait for the next NF (AMD) release ... what then ??? I am finished with VIA I was really disappointed about the KT333 and now ..... I could only remember the good old KT133A times .. |
