In the wee hour of 01:13 PM 5/9/01 -0400, John Eichenlaub bequeathed such
tales as these:
>>From: "Jackie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>I see "Intel 810 chipset" in most PC specs, but today as I was comparing
>>specs (before making a purchase), I came across "SiS 630". I like to know
>>what exactly is a chipset ?
>
>Jackie, in my opinion I would NOT buy an SIS motherboard. I bought a
>"barebones" system with the SIS M599LMR board. It is supposed to
>automatically recognize the cpu and adjust voltages accordingly, but I
>fried three processors in it. I'm probably going to put in the barn with
>the 486's. BTW, I have some SIS info links if anyone wants them.
>They don't speak kindly of SIS. Plus, I often see SIS mobo's in junkboxes
>at computer shows. My three cents worth, John.
John, you're going to ruin the barn with that SIS thing in there, can't you
just shoot it?
I have had a number of friends/client with the same displeasure of having
owned an SIS board. ALI is far better, I've been running my Asus P5A-B for
3 years now with no complaints and it's equipped with the ALI 5 set. There
were issues in the past with the AGP controllers but that's mostly been
worked out. If you are shopping for a new machine then either a Pentium 3
or an AMD Athlon/Duron will work fine, if you require a lot of power then
go for the AMD Thunderbird instead of the Pentium 4. The AMD is cheaper
and performs better in most all aspects except for PhotoShop
benchmarks. Just my 2 cents. HTH
Peter Kaulback
I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
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