What are your thoughts on VIA Chipsets vs Intel CHipsets. Mainly talking about the Pt890. Was wondering if it would be worth upgrading motherboard in the future to one with an intel chipset. I am running PentiumD 925.
I dont know the particular chipset you referred to or any of its competitors but ive learned over the years to ignore who made the chipset cos ive found very little difference between them. Other than boards with intel chips tend to cost more. So long as you find a board with all the features you want I wouldnt worry too much about who makes the chipset.
It's been awhile since it was announced, but it seems that it was pretty competitive. Problem is, very few motherboards with the PT890 came out. I don't remember hearing anything about it being a poor performer. I doubt it would be, as past VIA chipsets have been pretty solid performers. They, like SIS have been a little weak on storage performance, but in terms of real-world performance, you're unlikely to actually notice any actual peformance delta between the chipset. Unless you're building a new box, I can't see a good reason to swap motherboards. Even if the motherboard does perform better, you're not going to notice it without benchmarks.
Yes, I have been using the KT133 Socket A for a while now, It has never game me problems. Have been using it for the past 6 years now. I just decided it was time for an upgrade, because I mainly use to backup DVD's. I spend alot less time waiting for encode/transcode now of my vids. I will eventually prob go to core2 proc, since motherboard supports, but I'm happy running XP on my PD 3.0G Presler. I got a good deal on Cpu COoler runs 37-39C at idle. I have heard of problems with the chip running hot. Is that true with the 65nm also. Yes, I looked at benchmarks of VIA vs Intel, and didn't seem very different. I was just wondering because I ran a global Benchmark using PC-Wizard and the processor was really low on the Graph, so was wondering if maybe there was something up with this particular chipset, since I got mobo/processor for about 120 dollars, and newegg just lists processor for 120. I wasn't expecting a great motherboard, but has a PCI-e x16 no sli though,full ATX, a pci-e x4 and 4 other pci slots. So, the features were good. I could have got an Asus but with no pCI-E, it didn't sound too good. By the way its an ECS, I think E-machines use those. I remeber having a friend with an E-machines ECS motherboard, It would burn up dial-modems about once every year, but it ran the fastest over dialup over any comp i ever seen regardless of modem in there. We would just replace with a cheap wal-mart modem once a year. Thanks for replies.
Yeah, they do run hot when you get them running under load. I've got a Cedar Mill-based Pentium D and that does 49-51*C at stock. Now, I'm sure part of it is the weather, but even so, it does run quite warm.
