Via releasing another socketA chipset ??

[Soulkeeper]

I think i read somewhere that via might be releasing a dual channel socket A chipset this month or next
is this true or was the news misreported where i read it ??

 

[boyRacer]

yeah they are... it's called the KT880... socket a won't go away for awhile.

 

[Soulkeeper]

tite
if it has good overclocking features then i might get it to replace my new nf7-s

I would love to get 230 or more fsb
and i have always liked via chipsets
nice latencies and stuff


woohooo

 

[boyRacer]

they better put a damn pci/agp lock this time... :|

<--- no lock on his KT600

 

[Soulkeeper]

heh yeah that's the only reason i didn't get the kt600

if it's not too much trouble I was wondering if you could post some sisoft mem and cpu arith scores on your kt600 setup with whatever speed your at ??



thanks

 

[boyRacer]

sorry... i had a single SATA drive on it when i was playing around with it while waiting for my 2 raptors. but i havent had the time to even install an OS on the array as of yet.

Heres a review with the sisoft benchmarks you may want to check out... weird enough though... that's probably the only review where the KT600 actually isn't looking so bad... everywhere other review i've seen didn't look so good.

 

[Soulkeeper]

here are some benchs on my system from last week

200x11 1.71v 2200mhz
2-2-2-6 2.8v 1:1
vdd 1.71v
sisoft
mem 2900/2730
cpu arith 8263/3314
cpu mult 11831/13009
29c 41c

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: Soulkeeper
here are some benchs on my system from last week

200x11 1.71v 2200mhz
2-2-2-6 2.8v 1:1
vdd 1.71v
sisoft
mem 2900/2730
cpu arith 8263/3314
cpu mult 11831/13009
29c 41c

yeah that looks right... the KT600 was behind the the nforce by quite a margin... i think anandtech has a review of the A7V600 where its around ~20fps behind... oh well... not bad for $70.

 

[Soulkeeper]

ahhhh ok

yeah those raptor drives look nice
I might get one around x-mas or something


thanks

 

[Zepper]

Yeah, the 880 is due in a month or so.
. My god I can't stand it! As if +/-5% on some benchmark makes any real world difference... Those pizza faced idiots doing the reviews on the tech sites make 5 FPS out of 300 (i.e. less than 2%) difference sound like the second coming.
. Get real! The KT-600 is a fast, stable chipset - read the recent review of the Soltek on AT. The SiS 748 is pretty good too. And with the money I save over an nf, I can bump a couple notches up the CPU food chain...
.bh.
:moon:

 

[cdrakejr]

Here are a couple of news posts from X-bit Labs regarding the KT880:


X-bit Labs
X-bit Labs

Edit: See if I can't get these links right.

 

[Soulkeeper]

Originally posted by: Zepper
Yeah, the 880 is due in a month or so.
. My god I can't stand it! As if +/-5% on some benchmark makes any real world difference... Those pizza faced idiots doing the reviews on the tech sites make 5 FPS out of 300 (i.e. less than 2%) difference sound like the second coming.
. Get real! The KT-600 is a fast, stable chipset - read the recent review of the Soltek on AT. The SiS 748 is pretty good too. And with the money I save over an nf, I can bump a couple notches up the CPU food chain...
.bh.
:moon:

I agree many do, but we're all hoping the dual channel via chipset will offer more performance than a measley 5% if not stock then atleast when overclock (at worst their will be more competition)
btw this chipset will use some of the tech from via's P4 dual channel chipset and maybe even some work from their upcoming hammer chipsets

it could be good
i'lll be watching

 

[Soulkeeper]

the end of this month or next ??

 

[lucky9]

i know the top one works, thanks