VIA PCI bandwidth issues confirmed

[KRSESQ]

This would certainly explain why I get much better performance from my 80 gig ATA100 drive attached to the secondary IDE controller on my VIA chipset mobo than I did from my 60 gig Promise Fasttrak RAID0 array.

Kevin

[THE_Editor]

I had to dump the Asus CUV4X board I "upgraded" to. Just too many problems with the chipset (Apollo Pro z iirc)

Ended up actually "downgrading" to CUbX-E !!
Rock steady & still using it now !! Although its getting a bit long in the tooth!!

Looking forward to A1 although I dont know how long it will be before necessary drivers come available !!

(Still .. Gotta spend me dosh on summat )!!

[Ryu Connor]

Greebe:

Since the debate has moved away from being technical I debated making any reasponse at all. I think you wanted and answer and I suppose you deserve as much.

This industry changes every six months. With all sorts of new chips and drivers. To me there's no larger industry where an saying like, "things change" applies more liberally.

No one is saying you have to give up your bigoted hate of VIA. Nor has my argument been directly targeted at attempting to change the mind of Dr. Morbid, or you, or anyone else who has already made up their mind. It would be silly to think that I could change your opinion.

This is a general hardware/software forum, though. As such different opinions are of a value and there's not much harm in them. They only become a problem when one person feels the need to force their opinion. To this point I felt this to be a discussion with a point and counterpoint and not a battle of who gets the last word.

I liked to be challenged in conversation and Dr. Mordrid appears to be rather intelligent. I have little desire to see the conversation degenerate.

[Greebe]

And since you haven't noticed even he's tiring of every flippin count point you are making... I to like to discuss the technical aspect too, but always like to boil it down to the simpliest of things... Trees, Forest, now why can't you see that? The rest of us do.

[Ryu Connor]

Never been a fan of simple.

[Dr Mordrid]

Not a fan of simple?

Ever hear of Occam's razor?

"One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything."

William of Occam (1284-1347)

Dr. Mordrid

[Greebe]

Thanks Doc

[Ryu Connor]

Occam's Razor

The English philosopher, William of Occam
(1300-1349) propounded Occam's Razor:

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

(Latin for "Entities should not be multiplied more than
necessary"). That is, the fewer assumptions an explanation of
a phenomenon depends on, the better it is.

For example, some claim that God caused himself to exist and
also caused the universe to exist - he was the "first cause" -
whereas Occam's Razor suggests that if one accepts the
possibility of something causing itself then it is better to
assume that it was the universe that caused itself rather than
God because this explanation involves fewer entities.

The negation of Occam's Razor would suggest that an
arbitrarily complex explanation is just as good as the
simplest one. (E.g. God and his cat created a robot called
Sparky who built the universe from parts bought from a shop in
another dimension).

See also KISS Principle.

(1995-11-09)

Assumptions and facts are different things. One can never have enough facts in this gray world of ours.

[Dr Mordrid]

So? Your elaboration is making my point, again

Dr. Mordrid

[KRSESQ]

Of course its simplest of all to say the universe IS God.

Kevin

[Wombat]

Negative. The simplest is, "Thou art God." You grok?

See <I>Stranger in a Strange Land</I> for further information

[KRSESQ]

Grok.

Kevin