Intel or SiS??

[DoubleST]

I have a 2 gig P4 and 400MHz OCZ ram. What motherboard do you recomemnd for this. (Not ASUS) I heard the GIEXP and 4G4A+ are good. Do i gp for SiS or Intel.

Plzz help

 

[juin]

I guess you mean PC 3200

The day i meet a goth queen that tell me Intel suck.I turn in a lemming to fill is need in hardware.

 

[chuck232]

I'm looking at both of those mobos too. The Gigabyte has more features, but the EPoX seems to overclock better and has more RAM dividers. Really depends on what you want to do. SiS chipsets are great at stock speeds, but the Intel mobos seem to have better overclocking features.

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[BigBiggist]

You said the intel mobos have better overclocking features. Does the SiS chipset still have good oc'ing features? Let's say I get an Asus or Soyo mobo with the SiS 648 chipset, will i be able to oc a 2.4b to 3GHz with no problem?

 

[Crashman]

SiS chipsets are outperforming Intel's and have more overclocking features, such as more memory ratios.

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[o1die]

I would go with sis also. My 1.8a wouldn't overclock but 10-13% with a via board or abit bd7 with intel 845 chipset. But the asus p4s533 (sis 645dx) had no problems with this cpu running at 133 fsb.

 

[chuck232]

The only thing is, if you run the FSB at say.. 166MHz, then the PCI/AGP could be kinda out of spec right? I don't know much about the SiS645DX ratios, but I know with some 845D/E/G mobos, you can lock the PCI/AGP bus speeds. Also, if you get a 845G mobo, you'll usually get the 4:5 ratio, although not the 4:6 in the SiS645DX.

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