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Compare VIA & Intel Chipsets
Name: Sandor Date: May 15, 2007 at 06:17:19 Pacific OS: Win XP SP2 CPU/Ram: 3.6 GHz / 2 GB Product: Home Made
Comment:
Does anyone have (or have come across) information on how the VIA chipsets compare to the Intel chipsets with the new Pentium D and duo processors in terms of performance and reliability?
Name: pgckkwvdzm Date: May 15, 2007 at 07:02:59 Pacific
Reply:
There's really no noticeable difference in a chipset's performance except when comparing some benchmarks. Then its just benchmark scores to compare the difference.
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Response Number 2
Name: jackbomb Date: May 15, 2007 at 11:23:17 Pacific
Reply:
Intel's chipsets are a lot better than Via's.
Pentium III--Descendant of Intel Core. Pentium III-S 1400 @ 1.63GHz, 512K L2 X800XT AIW OC 580/600 2GB of RAM 250GB HD SB Audigy 2 QDI Advance 12 mobo Smugly running Vista
Agree with jackbomb...Intel chipsets are better than VIA. Certain nVidia chipsets are comparable to Intel & in some cases even faster. SiS chipsets should be avoided.
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