Lang Zhi wrote:
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> Hi.
> How is the performance of VIA chipset based MOBO, compared to Intel based.
> Lets say, BX vs VIA, or i810 vs VIA ?
>
> Which one faster ?
>
> -lz
>
>
The answer, as with most answers, is, --==it depends==--
The i810 works better with memory specifically designed and/or
certified for it. VIA chipsets aren't so cranky about memory.
BX is a pretty good chipset, and my experience is that VIA can't
match its reliability ... Intel got lucky?
The GX chipset is something VIA has no equivalent for.
The KTX133 is something Intel has no equivalent for and is a
hefty performer. No data available on long-term reliability. No
chipset before this had the "optimal" processor feature which
will drive the bus and the processor as fast as it can without
getting data corruption. Also, the interesting interlace done to
run PC100 memory on a 200MHz bus puts this one head and shoulders
above the crowd. It seems good enough that ASUS is using it.
Of course Chipsets are also married to processors or at least
processor families.
We have in the mainstream right now the following families,
separated by their connections
Socket 7 Pentium, MMX, IDT C6-x, Cyrix(VIA)
AMD K5, K6, rise mP6
Socket 370 Celeron, P-III Coppermine
Socket A Duron, Athlon Thunderbird
Slot-1 Older Celeron, Pentium II, III
Slot-2 Xeon II III
Slot-A Athlon
There are of course other chipset manufacturers. ALi Aladdin
chipsets are used in many boards. Most of them have had BIOS
updates to accurately detect some IDE devices, but otherwise they
seem to do well at standard clock rates. SiS does some highly
integrated stuff, and as long as you don't get it served to you
on a very cheap board (like PCChips) those chipsets seem to be
the most reliable around (at standard clock rates). I have a
Shuttle HOT-599 placed in service February, 1999. It is running
a refrigerated K6-2 450 at standard 100MHz FSB and is a heavily
loaded workgroup server. Since. It was rebooted once when the
56K modem was changed to a cheap ethernet card for a DSL, and
twice more when the server software was shifted to mdk 6.1 and to
7.1.
If you want the fastest available without getting into 64-bit
processors, the VIA KTX133 and Athlon Thunderbird can race past
all else. You can beat Pentium III Coppermine 1GHz with only a
900MHz Thunderbird and you CAN buy THunderbirds up to 1GHz this
week. (who knows what it will be next week)
http://sysopt.earthweb.com/userreviews/products/mboards.html
Has ratings by users for many motherboards. User ratings as
opposed to technical give an index of not only how wonderful the
features are but also how much hassle it is to reap those
benefits. Most of the raters are technically competent to some
degree because in order to rate a MB you are probably building
your own computer. Extreme technical competemce is not required
but you can figure that most of these users will not draw to an
inside strait unless nobody's betting.
YEs, it depends. The chipset resides on a motherboard and it
works with a processor. Find a GOOD (read reliable) motherboard
(or several good ones) then look for the chipset you think works
the best.
And for the speed issue--if the base system
(mobo+memory+processor) works at an index of 3677 (where the
original IBM-PC 8088 at 4.77MHz and 0.2 Bogomips is the index of
1) and you still have to load a 45Mb program like StarOffice
Bloatware from disk, are you going to see any improvement over a
base system with an index of 1200? Not likely.
If you are rendering 3D graphics with a specialized program and
DDR Geforce interfaces and all--would you be better served with a
single hot processor on a base system or a cluster of processors
in a parallel-processing system? Both can come to about the same
cost, or the supercomputer can be cheaper (as Oak Ridge National
Laboratory demonstrated with Stonesoup, a Beowulf made from
donated computers).
Well, I hope this is helpful in answering what appears to be a
simple question. You will, of course, find a better answer for
your purposes by researching the matter yourself, but perhaps
this can serve as a way to structure how you go about it.
Civileme
