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You guys think via's porblems have been solved with this revision and would anyone buy AMDXP motherboards based on this chipset?
personally i would be saving money to buy an AMD64 or opteron system.
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You guys think via's porblems have been solved with this revision and would anyone buy AMDXP motherboards based on this chipset?
personally i would be saving money to buy an AMD64 or opteron system.Life is a bed of roses. Everyone else sees the roses, you are the one being gored by the thorns.
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Re: VIA KT880 chipset
I wouldn't buy anything via based unless I want some fun and too extend my day time job into the evening.Originally posted by Belwarrior
http://www.via.com.tw/en/k7-series/kt880.jsp
You guys think via's porblems have been solved with this revision and would anyone buy AMDXP motherboards based on this chipset?
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Their Envy line of 24-bit chips are nice. So far my Revolution is better than any previous sound card I've had.
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No they're not. So far they've only crippled the original Envy24 into their newer models.
They bought a nice chip and are in the process of VIAding it...
Only the original Envy24 maintained its quality.Comment
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The only difference between the Envy24 and the Envy24HT is that the HT has support for 24/192, rather than 24/96 and does not have any harware directsound channels. For music listening and a bit of gaming, there should be no loss in quality. It is the supporting hardware, like ciruitboard layout, DAC's, capacitors that should make all the difference (and, oh yeah, drivers)...Let us return to the moon, to stay!!!Comment
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Hmmm, this VIA chipset is simply has too many new features to be very functional or bugfree.
I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole, given how long it took for VIA to get their PATA right, I don't want to be a guiniea pig for their SATA implemntation.80% of people think I should be in a Mental Institute
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Can anyone say corrupted data ??Comment
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Seems like a nice chipset to me, I'd try it if I had the need to upgrade."For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism."Comment
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Well they actually seemed to have SATA raid right in the current stepping of the VT8237 southbridge, and it actually outperforms lots of other sata controlers I've seen in HD benches. However it is a big deal to move that much stuff over to the northbridge... so I guess it'll be a wait and see thing.Comment
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It's a software solution. The CPU is doing all the work.Originally posted by rylan
Well they actually seemed to have SATA raid right in the current stepping of the VT8237 southbridge, and it actually outperforms lots of other sata controlers I've seen in HD benches. However it is a big deal to move that much stuff over to the northbridge... so I guess it'll be a wait and see thing.Comment
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Ok, see this cracks me up. So I was poking around the reviews of the SiS748 chipset, and came across article after article saying things like "this chipset underperforms" and "this chipset isn't as fast as the VIA or nForce".
But MULTIPLE hardware sites have reported that EVERY NFORCE CHIPSET currently in production can be crashed outright by loading it up with too many concurrent IDE transfers. That's right, set 20 large file copies going at once, and the chipset shits the bed and bluescreens!
VIA apparently can be FORCED to corrupt data by doing much the same thing.
That says to me that the chipset is DEFECTIVE.
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Well, no wonder VIA or Nforce is "faster" they have disabled the "failsafes"
If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
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I have just tried that on my nforce2 board, except my computer is still running fine.Originally posted by Gurm
But MULTIPLE hardware sites have reported that EVERY NFORCE CHIPSET currently in production can be crashed outright by loading it up with too many concurrent IDE transfers. That's right, set 20 large file copies going at once, and the chipset shits the bed and bluescreens!
That says to me that the chipset is DEFECTIVE.
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A url describing the problem and how to trigger it would be apperciated thanks.80% of people think I should be in a Mental InstituteComment
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Kurt, I'm pretty sure my SATA raid1 setup is hardware controled through the 8327 southbridge. I have lower cpu utiliation with it than using the silicon image sata controler. I know windows has "software' raid, but I'm not sure how this can be software when the array is enabled before windows loads and I never set up additional raid support through windows.Comment
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