VIA bug addressed...

[Yoda_abx]

http://www.anandtech.com/webnews.htm...frontid=#12922

For all you VIA fans out there...

[kaz]

I got some bug protection: Santa Cruz SC and HD's on Promise RAID controller it seems to be working so far....

EDIT

I am not really a Via fan, I would by a mobo with a Burger King chipset if it's fast....hehehe

[Edited by kaz on 04-29-2001 at 04:06 PM]

[Yoda_abx]

I like the Burger King comment, that was funny, LOL...

[wayneleake]

While I like Boogar kings oncet inna wile, I posolutely hates VIA's...
After the problem I had with my ABit VA6 and it losing the USB port too often, Not likely I'll buy another MB with a VIA chipset. Aside from that problem, it was reasonable stable, most of the time.
BTW, when did the snotburger place start selling chipsets?
You gottem confused with McChips? <LOL> ...

[Howard Stern_abx]

Wayne you problem was not Via is was Abit, Via makes a great chipset now. The new KT133a is a much better chipset then the I815 is.

It is not limited to 512 megs of Memory
It supports 4 way Interleaving
Its AGP apeture size is greater then 64M
At 155MHz FSB I still have AGP 4X

I have a 1333 Thunderbird running at 1.550MHz with no lock ups.

I also believed Intel was better until I build this system a week ago. I know see the light.

[S.SubZero]

Oh, you said VIA.

Sorry, I wouldn't know about such inferior unrealiable budget chipsets that aren't worth their weight in silicon.

-SSZ

[wayneleake]

Originally posted by Howard Stern
Wayne you problem was not Via is was Abit, Via makes a great chipset now. The new KT133a is a much better chipset then the I815 is.

It is not limited to 512 megs of Memory
It supports 4 way Interleaving
Its AGP apeture size is greater then 64M
At 155MHz FSB I still have AGP 4X

I have a 1333 Thunderbird running at 1.550MHz with no lock ups.

I also believed Intel was better until I build this system a week ago. I know see the light.

you may not have yet run across the dreaded USB port problem, which is NOT limited to Abit.
And on the Abit newsgroup, there was much posting about the problem and it included the KT series chipsets.
Some also mentioned Asus MB's with these problems.
VIA be damned.
Here's your light.

[cryogen_abx]

ssz - hrm..i dunno...seems like a dated statement..
they do make a great chip now...
i agree with your statement, about a year ago! =)
i had a VIA board bout 8 months ago, and had nothin but problems so i went to cusl2..
however, know a few ppl with via's now (and built a lot in my store) that have no probs...
and howard stern is right..look at what you can still get out of it =)
i've always been an intel person myself..but they've gotta comeout with something better quick.
cryogen

[Howard Stern_abx]

You could not be more wrong super, The new Via chipset will out perform any Intel chipset. We can compare numbers if you want. As for stability Via and Intel are dead even. I will give you an example:
PIII-1G @ 1.2G with Muskin rev 3
Sandra memory benchmark

440\480

Via KT133a with same memory 1.333G Athlon
697\703

Thats a big boost for Via.

I can email all the tests from Sandra and you can compare them if you want.

[kaz]

Check it out:
http://www.amdmb.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=32504

[Perry_abx]

They should be getting pretty good at it... considering there extensive troubleshooting experience!

[cryogen_abx]

pbeyer - LOL
cryogen

[Perry_abx]

http://www.cusl2c.com/vbulletin/show...?threadid=2711