Joe: I have an old MicroATX computer which I wanted to upgrade, and the best thing I found was the motherboard based on the integrated Sis chipset (730?), which at this point is a little bit outdated, given all the new motherboards now are DDR.
SiS is coming out with a new integrated chipset (SiS740) very soon. This is what SiS has to say about the integrated graphics:
The Integrated GUI features a high performance 3D accelerator with 2 Pixel / 4 Texture and Geometry Transform/lighting engines, and a 128 bit 2D accelerator with 1T pipeline BITBLT engine. It also features a Video high quality DVD playback. A 12 bit DDR digital video link interfaced to SiS 301 package in 100-pin PQFP is incorporated to expand the SiS 740 functionality in support of the secondary display, in addition to the default primary CRT display. The SiS 301 Video Bridge integrates an NTSL/PAL video encoder with Macro Vision Ver. 7.1.L1 option for TV display, A TMDS transmitter with Bi-linear scaling capability for TFT LCD panel support, and an analog RGB port to support a secondary CRT. The primary CRT display and the extended secondary display (TV, TFT LCD Panel, 2¡¦nd CRT) features the Dual View capability in the sense that both can generate the display in independent resolutions, color depths, and frame rates.
(source: sis.com )
This is a better graphics chip than the one featured in the new SiS650 P4, new socket (Socket478, not 370). From the feature list (which doesn't list things like pixel fill rate), it can address twice the amount of memory (128MB vs 64MB for the P4 graphics chip and now has a T&L engine (which the P4 graphics chip doesn't).
(Sources: sis.com
sis.com )
In other words, you can safely take SiS650 graphics performance as a lower limit for the SiS740.
-fyo |
