Via vs. AMD vs. Intel?

[mjdunn]

I hear a lot of people say how crappy Via chipsets are. I want to know why that is? I have used many Via based boards and have not had any problems. The only chipset I have ever had a problem with was an old SiS. I have also heard people say the Intel and AMD chipsets suck. So what is the deal? How is Ali, I question them because they are aopen! I have had nothing but problems with aopen stuff but have never tried their chipsets. Any feed back would be great.

Thanks

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[Guest]

I have never had any problems with my VIA chipsets, i havn't exactly bought hundreds of them, but the ones that i have dealt with (and bought for my own personal use aswell as work) have run flawlessly with both INTEL and AMD type processors. I found them reliable, fast, well supported and come on well priced mainboards. I too have heard people bag them out, but no one has actually said why,,,
I am interested to hear someone's reasons aswell.
But this post seems devoid of any technical reasons...

 

[Crashman]

ALi makes a good low performance chipset, with the exception of the MAGiK 1, which is a good medium-performance chipset. AMD intially had problems, but their new 760 is showing promise. I had multiple problems with driver incompatability, instability, and configuration errors with my last VIA chipset that took a long time to figure out, and then my system was only semi-stable. That was months ago, and I here they are doing better now, but I have no faith in them. BTW I had a lot of cards in my system, 6 I think, and a lot of programs. I even had to pull all the cards to get through settup!

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[speedracer]

Pretty simple jezus, a botched upgrade or mixed with other hardware with possible compatibility problems and... well, it must be that damn chipset!!