Tom's Hardware has taken a look at the Aladdin-P4 by ALi. The Aladdin-P4 promises support for UDMA 133 and DDR 333 MHz SDRAM. From the beginning, the chipset left a bad taste in their mouths with no BIOS option for the 166 MHz bus. This should be easily fixed in a BIOS revision. The reference board was sluggish in benchmarks, and even took last place in a Linux kernel source compile project. Their conclusion:
With a few exceptions, the benchmark results clearly show that the ALi Aladdin P4 chipset is currently the slowest for the Intel Pentium 4. Its weak RAM performance caused it to stick out like a sore thumb in some of the benchmark disciplines. During the test, however, the board was impressively stable day after day - the reference system didn't crash even once.
Looks like Acer should stick to budget chipsets...Read on
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