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A Single Channel Solution: VIA's PT800 and SiS's 648FX
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Posted by: TotalRecall
The Tech Report has taken the time to review VIA's PT800 and SiS's 648FX Pentium 4 800MHz FSB chipsets. The chipsets differ from others in that they concentrate on offering a cost-effective solution by using a single channel memory solution. Here's a snip:
The most striking thing about our benchmark results is, undoubtedly, the eye-opening performance of the VIA PT800 chipset. Even in places where we expected a single-channel solution to lag—3D gaming, speech recognition, video encoding—the PT800 excels. The PT800 is generally faster than Intel's 865PE chipset, and it gives the 875P a run for its (copious amounts of) money. No, the PT800 isn't the world-beater that the 875P is, but VIA is expected to deliver a dual-channel chipset before long to contend for that title. The PT800 is meant to do battle in the broad mainstream of the market, and VIA has the 865PE's number. Single-channel motherboards are generally cheaper and easier to design and manufacture, so I'd expect to see very affordable PT800-based boards that mop the floor with stock 865PE boards.
VIA has not yet introduced a dual-channel chipset, but SiS does have the 655FX. Read on here.
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