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Name: Sebastian
Date: July 16, 2002 at 14:46:21 Pacific
Comment:

What are the 2 most popular chipsets? I think one is Intel, what is the other?



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Response Number 1
Name: Panic_attack83
Date: July 16, 2002 at 16:23:25 Pacific
Reply:

AMD


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Response Number 2
Name: jam
Date: July 16, 2002 at 17:55:47 Pacific
Reply:

Are you referring to CPU...or do you mean chipset?

A CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the main chip or brains of the PC...the most popular are from AMD (Athlon or Duron) or Intel (Celeron or Pentium 4).

A CHIPSET refers to a group of chips that work together as a unit. The term is generally used in reference to motherboards, but it can also refer to the chips used on a videocard, modem or soundcard. Motherboard chipsets communicate with the CPU & control memory, Front Side Bus, USB, PCI/ISA, AGP, I/O & other tasks. There are several different manufacturers, including ALi, AMD, Intel, SiS, VIA & others. Probably the most popular right now is the VIA KT333 (for AMD CPU's) or the INTEL 845 (for Pentium 4)...but these are constantly changing. SiS has been coming on strong lately & their "single chip chipset" meets or beats the others in benchmark comparisons.


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Response Number 3
Name: Froggx
Date: July 16, 2002 at 20:17:24 Pacific
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If it's graphics, I would say nVidia and ATi. Intel makes integrated graphics on some mobos, but they suck. They used to make graphics chipsets, but now ATi and nVidia are the big ones, followed by PowerVR and Matrox. If I missed a company, let me know. And as much as I hate to say it, 3DFX doesn't count.


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Response Number 4
Name: ~BeBe~
Date: July 17, 2002 at 08:19:41 Pacific
Reply:

I believe he's asking for the chipset on motherboard... It's Intel >> SIS >> VIA

that's how they go..

~BeBe~


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Response Number 5
Name: huh?
Date: July 17, 2002 at 11:49:19 Pacific
Reply:

I believe the proper order is:

VIA >> SiS >> Intel

:)



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Response Number 6
Name: jam
Date: July 17, 2002 at 15:04:11 Pacific
Reply:

Hey BeBe, I see that you named the chipsets in alpabetical order!


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Response Number 7
Name: Froggx
Date: July 17, 2002 at 21:26:25 Pacific
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YES! Someone does know the ABC's. I think it might be Intel>Via>Sis, because Intel does like everything for the Pentium, VIA does everything for the AMD's, and SIS kinda shows up every now and then. Then there is Ali and AMD, but that is a different story. I think. Maybe someone should look this stuff up.


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Response Number 8
Name: jam
Date: July 18, 2002 at 05:29:46 Pacific
Reply:

You forgot nVidia's nForce...


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Response Number 9
Name: Froggx
Date: July 18, 2002 at 22:29:36 Pacific
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D'oh. You're right. NVidia is actually making an nForce 2. It will have support for dual channel DDR 400 memory, so it is no slouch. And you can get this one without integrated graphics. There is a full preview at www.tomshardware.com


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