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
