Which chipset do you feel comes out on top? How do the benchmarks add up? Has anyone had any actual personal experience with these two chipsets and their performance and reliability?
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Which chipset do you feel comes out on top? How do the benchmarks add up? Has anyone had any actual personal experience with these two chipsets and their performance and reliability?
Y know, I would have to say the SIS 655 because well first off its cheaper. Performance wise they are pretty equal, but the 655 is a bit ahead.
Plus the E7205 is more of a workstation chipset.
The only thing the SiS655 has over the Intel GB chipset is the fact it can run DCDDR333 rather then 266.
But other then that, the SiS board is just as expensive as the GB board. There loaded SiS655 board goes for around $250.
Please not worth the time or effort.
Both these the SiS655 and the E7205 are both workstation class motherboard. Kinda hard to pick between the two chipset but I would pay a bit more for the E7205 because Intel makes better chipset while SiS are known to make jokes for chipset. Good thing they withdrawled in the AMD Chipset market, they honestly sucked at it.
I guess 33 posts didn't make a difference from 21. It's kind of disheartening.Quote:
Originally posted by he_is_tom
Both these the SiS655 and the E7205 are both workstation class motherboard. Kinda hard to pick between the two chipset but I would pay a bit more for the E7205 because Intel makes better chipset while SiS are known to make jokes for chipset. Good thing they withdrawled in the AMD Chipset market, they honestly sucked at it.
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Originally posted by CrawlingEye
I guess 33 posts didn't make a difference from 21. It's kind of disheartening.
That's rude regarding someone elses opinion SIS Freak.
I think SiS are jokes awell.
If you had a basis for your opinion, I'd listen. Considering these are just rants coming from your part, I consider your 'opinion' (not being based on anything factual) as being void. I'm sorry if that offends you, however this is the truth. :)Quote:
Originally posted by SS_Supra
That's rude regarding someone elses opinion SIS Freak.
I think SiS are jokes awell.
I'd actually have to agree with himQuote:
Originally posted by SS_Supra
That's rude regarding someone elses opinion SIS Freak.
I think SiS are jokes awell.
If you look down about three threads from this posting, the same poster left rude, and immature statements about SiS, which weren't even close to being, in anyway, factual.
How are they jokes? is it that they are a more affordable chipset maker, or the fact that they are INTEL's only true Pentium 4 based chipset competitiors?
Maybe you guys should use a SiS chipset for a while, and notice what efforts, and effective prosecution of their chipsets. SiS has great AGP, and IDE drivers, along with great official support, as they are known for their pure efforts to bring a fast, and effective chipset, without the cost.
Check out anandtech's review. It compares a few 655 against one 850 and a GB.Quote:
Originally posted by Coltrane
Which chipset do you feel comes out on top? How do the benchmarks add up? Has anyone had any actual personal experience with these two chipsets and their performance and reliability?
You'll notice the 655 only pulls away from the GB when it's running at DDR333 and DDR400, although in the some tests the GB beats the DDR333 AND DDR400 speeds of the 655.
If you compare the SIS DDR266 vs the GB there's not a lot in it.
-Mark
man, seems like dual ddr is really not worth buying anytime soon... But this comparison between GB and SiS is rediculous, you wouldn't even tell the difference between their perfoamance during actual use... I'd go w/ the Granite Bay over the SiS just because my main reason for switching to Intel (from amd, which I still use p0lenty of amd rigs all over the place, just not as my main rig) was because I didn't want to deal w/ pain in the *** 3rd party chipset makers...
I personly like the SiS for a few reasons.first off i have never had a problem with any of the SiS boards of late.In fact the best comp I have built has been an SiS chipset. As far as cost the SiS will go down quicker than intel (for the pure fact that intel is greedy lol)which makes the SiS the better performance to cost ratio.One thing else that you would have to be thankfull for is that SiS even exsisted because if they were not around intel would really be raping you guys,if there is no compition (SiS) the prices of the intel would never really decrease in a manner that we are used too..
But guys i must say that i do like intel but I do prefer the underdogs.........I also have to say that this is just my 2 cents worth:) :) :)
SiS is trying, but simply cant keep up lol :p
Intel7205 , when overclocked especially, will blow SiS away.
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Originally posted by Fred E. Krugar
but I do prefer the underdogs
then get an amd ...
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Originally posted by pudad
then get an amd ...
Well i tried that but they were not quite ma cup of tea .....though AMD does have some good quailities but still me and AMD even recently are simply just not compatable....lol.
Its kinda like mixing oil with water....with alot of work you can actualy get them to mix but in only in a matter of minutes they separate again...then ya just have a mess....you get the picture;) ;) ;)
Coltrane:
The link below is to an article on the IntelE7205 (Granite Bay) chipset and may be of interest to you. The author provides an overview of the new chipset and also includes some benchmarking test results. Unfortunately, the tests do not include a comparison to the SIS chipset.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/mainboards/granite-bay/
--Bannon
Here's what Anandtech has to say:
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First off, we can safely say that MSI's 655 Max motherboard is the fastest Pentium 4 motherboard we've ever tested, albeit by a relatively slim margin over Rambus solutions based on Intel's 850E chipset. While E7205 boards were more or less the performance equivalent of PC1066 Rambus equipped systems, MSI's 655 Max has clearly taken the performance lead, but again only by a very thin margin.
Motherboards based on SiS' 655 chipset will be marginally faster than E7205, 850E, and 845PE motherboards as long as dual channel DDR400 support is fully implemented in SiS 655 motherboards (MSI's board is just one example). We never would have thought it, but dual channel DDR400 actually outperforms dual channel DDR266, despite the fact that the Pentium 4's FSB doesn't require more than 4.2GB/s of peak bandwidth, which is exactly what dual channel DDR266 is capable of offering.
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1781&p=13
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So I'd say the 655 is better than the 7205, but not by a huge amount.Quote:
Once again, an SiS 655 motherboard is able to reliably operate in dual DDR400 mode with all memory banks occupied. This is an enormous step forward for SiS, as they have not only put together yet another fast, feature-filled Pentium 4 chipset but one that is capable of something only NVIDIA has been able to get close to accomplishing; stable dual channel DDR400 performance.
As usual, we ran several memory stress tests and general apps to make sure all these timings were stable. We started off by running Prime95 torture tests; a grand total of 24 hours of Prime95 was successfully run at the timings listed in the above charts. We also ran Sciencemark (memory tests only) and Super Pi. Neither stress test was able to bring the P4SDX to its knees.
That's why I'd take the Intel over the SiS...Quote:
Originally posted by s1203372
So I'd say the 655 is better than the 7205, but not by a huge amount. [/B]
LOL same here....Quote:
Originally posted by pudad
That's why I'd take the Intel over the SiS...
Even though some benches show SiS behind slightly ahead, most ppl will go with Intel.
Intel rules the game... SiS fanboys just dont get it.
I think your right. It does take a little more work and knowledge to put a good amd rig together.Quote:
Originally posted by Fred E. Krugar
Well i tried that but they were not quite ma cup of tea .....though AMD does have some good quailities but still me and AMD even recently are simply just not compatable....lol.
Its kinda like mixing oil with water....with alot of work you can actualy get them to mix but in only in a matter of minutes they separate again...then ya just have a mess....you get the picture;) ;) ;)
LOL hmmmmm yeah me know I is jus a dum wednec lol :D :D :D
I thought that was what you were saying! Thought i was agreeing with you.
Seriously, half of why I use intel now is because they make kick *** chipsets. Amd on the other hand makes pretty crappy chipsets for their cpus. I just didn't want to end up buying 3rd party chipsets from freaking via or sis. I'd think Intel would make the best mobos and chipsets for their own cpus (I'd buy an intel mobo too if they weren't so bare, but I guess Asus makes the next best thing but w/ a lot more features).Quote:
Originally posted by 1FastMofo
LOL same here....
Even though some benches show SiS behind slightly ahead, most ppl will go with Intel.
Intel rules the game... SiS fanboys just dont get it.
Hey rusty plz go to my thread and bash on the ASUS boards plz and tell me which one you like thanks:) :) :)
Same here.
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Originally posted by pudad
That's why I'd take the Intel over the SiS...