New Chipset Contender: SiS 735!?

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subhuman
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That's what I thought... "SiS? You mean that company that makes horrible chipsets?" Then I read <a href=http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/0 ... x.html>SiS 735 review</a> which seems very positive. We know the AMD760 is nearly as good as an 815/BX chipset, it will be interesting to see how the SiS 735 compares for intensive PCI use... Evidently ASUS is making a board based on this chipset in the near future.

Something to watch, surely, although the bitter taste from previous SiS experiences is still in the back of my mind...
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Post by Mo »

the last chipset from SiS i was using was an old socket7-chipset with integrated grafics... uahh... :grin:

but that 735 offers really good performance. the prototype board performs even better than a mature amd760-board (a7m266). up to ten percent higher memory transfer. and with an internal interconnect bandwidth of 1,2 gb/s it outperforms (at least theoretically) every current chipset design.

oh, how i wish that a dualcpu-version will be released... :wink:

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Post by subhuman »

Well we all know the difference between theoretical performance, and reality, after all the VIA chipsets are theoretically just as good as everything else out there :lol:

Anyway, look forward to the AMD760DP dual chipset, it <i>is coming</i> and ASUS has already annouced they'll release the ASUS A7M266DP board around Sept 2001 (+/- a month). InfiniteVortex will of course carry this product as soon as we have Creamware XP/2k drivers and it's passed the stress tests...
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