> well , not so much the via as much as the ali. i have a new box in the
> making, it is a dfi mb w/ the via chipset(udma/66-133mhz bus). i have
> talked to a lot of people both in person and on irc, none have said
> anything good about the via chipset. most stating that it is more of a
> kernel-wide thing with total utilitization of the via chipset. from what
> you are saying tho , there is was to get the most out of the chipset
> with kernel patches, but i just went through an extencive battle with
> this ali chipset that i have right now. so im kinda tainted on this
> chipset and weiry on the via one. no flame takin'. :)
I have Ali chipset and hardly have any problem with it. My system is a K6-2
with Ali Alladdin in Asus P5A and works great. My wife has PII with a good
ole' 440BX in Asus P3B-F. I once thought of swapping motherboards but since
my P5A has been good so I decided not to bother. I much prefer Intel
chipsets because they had been making good chipsets up until they come up
with i810, i820 garbages which i820 requires mth hub to be able to
communicate with PC-100 old ram. It's crap since to get a performance boost
to using rimm is too expensive for little gain and performance loss using
the mth translator hub. I stay away from it myself and stay with 440bx. I
found in Tom's Hardware website shows that overclocked 440bx smoked i820 in
most test but only failed the AGP intensive apps because 440bx only runs 2x
and i820 runs 4x. So I am for now off to different brand until Intel comes
up with something reasonable and reliable. I too am not trying to put a
flame.:-)
CH
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