I don't agree, SIL has done some nice chips... VIA isn't in my top, either,
but SIL has made some nice chips in my opinion... and the support was ok
last time I checked... though I used them only on Windoze (well, we have to
do that sometimes for the sake of multimedia :)
but hey, if I'm wrong, can anyone point me to what SIL has done wrong?
besides some issues with HDD corruption, that were solved with new BIOSes,
afaik in one case...
ANdrei
---
The problem with our world is stupidity. I'm not saying there should
be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vulpes Velox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jia-Shiun Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Scott Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: AMD64 X2
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 19:53:48 +0800
Jia-Shiun Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/2/05, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Asus A8V-E series also does not work. Asus claims that it's a
> limitation of the Via K8T890 chipset, which is highly unfortunate
> since it's otherwise a good motherboard. Not sure whether to be
> upset at Asus or Via here, but either way I guess both suck =-)
That's part of the reason why I did not choose AMD. Although I
wanted to build an x86-64 capable system and I have absolutely not
doubt that AMD did a good job, how to choose motherboard was a big
question to me. Especially being experienced with KT133A and
VT62x2. So I decided to be chicken and choose (to me) safer Intel
P4 531 and P5GD1 board.
Playing it safe and not buying hardware with VIA or Sil chipsets
works nicely. :)
BTW Intel and AMD already decided to let all CPUs support
x86-64(mostly for marketing purposes), including P4 5x1 series,
Celeron D 3x1/3x6 series, and Sempron. Intel ones already arrived
the market. So expect more traffics discussing it. Meanwhile the
name AMD64 could be misleading to some people who did not really
understand the differences. ;)
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