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To: sylvester80 who wrote (15570)	10/23/2000 12:27:32 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Sylvester, Re: Are you saying that the VIA chipset then is no good. Why would there be any big difference? The VIA chipset is solid but still an underperformer compared to other chipsets. Also note that all these benchmarks are from Pentium III systems. The P3 has on a 133 MHz FSB a bandwidth of 1,066 GB/sec while the Athlon (100 MHz DDR FSB) reaches 1,6 GB/sec or 2,1 GB/sec (with 133 MHz DDR FSB). So DDR should (read: will) scale much better on an Athlon. Like I said: Just wait a few more days. And concerning the AMD vs. VIA chipset performance: the AMD 750 chipset (bypass enabled) with PC100-222 memory is roughly as fast as the VIA KX133 chipset with PC133-222 memory. It's main advantage is it's synchronous design. Andreas

To: sylvester80 who wrote (15570)	10/23/2000 12:47:59 PM
From: that_crazy_doug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

<< Are you saying that the VIA chipset then is no good. Why would there be any big difference? Last I looked the VIA chipsets have been better and faster than the AMD ones. >> The via chipset is the only one that supports socket A. If you go back to slot a benchmarks the via chipset lost to the irongate in some benchmarks, won in others, and was overall about the same. Except that the via chipset supported 133mhz memory, and agp 4x, while the irongate did not. To me this means that the AMD chipset would likely have been vastly superior to the via one if it had all the newer features of the via chipset. I suspect the 760 will be much better then whatever via has.