> > No one makes the perfect chip/chipset; if someone did, everyone would buy. > > Right now, you would be hardpressed to match the price/performance ratio of > > AMD processor/VIA KT266A mobo combo with Intel. AFAIK, Intel P4 chipsets > > only support SDR and RAMBUS... > > Nope. There's one designed for upgraders with perfectly good PC133: > http://developer.intel.com/design/motherbd/wn/index.htm
First off, if this doesn't prove that Intel is The Man who is greedy, I don't know what does. http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1533 Second paragraph: The i845 is DDR capable, but Intel only allowed manufacturers to use it as an SDR chipset... http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1533&p=16 Benchmarks in PC133 mode. http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1489&p=17 Benchmarks of KT133A motherboards. >From this, you have to keep in mind that the KT133A motherboards have matured some since the time that article was written. Also, look at the hardware differences between the two test rigs. The fact that the AMD systems keep up in the only RAM bandwidth benchmark (Quake III Arena) says quite a lot. I'm not disputing that Intel makes an SDRAM chipset for P4. I'm just saying it sucks. Check the numbers... > Me too. Last system I built used a Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus > <http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/30/1626230&mode=thread>, > but it wasn't for me. I'm just not thrilled with the current product > options. So you're telling me that you had a DDR AMD system based on the Dragon Plus and want to drop it in favor of an SDRAM based P4 solution. ARE YOU MAD??? Terry
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