Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe & Gigabyte 8S655TX Ultra: SiS 655TX Challenges Intel's Best
by Wesley Fink on December 9, 2003 1:52 PM EST- Posted in
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High End Workstation Performance
Until the Athlon64 series, the Intel processors were dominating SPECviewperf benchmarks. It now looks like the 875/865 has met their match. Performance of the SiS655TX boards is as good as we have seen with Intel processors. Once again, SiS has demonstrated clearly that the old criticisms of their memory controllers belong in the past. SiS does not have the luxury here of a good memory controller on the chip, like the SiS755 enjoyed. Instead, they are demonstrating a very effective redesign of the memory controller — making it competitive with the best from Intel.
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bigtoe33 - Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - link
#1The board actually supports 128bit or dual 64bit mode from what i remember looking at the bios.
dvinnen - Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - link
errrr, #2, lay off the weed.valnar - Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - link
Everybody has to remember that SiS is only marginally better than VIA in compatibility, and several degrees less than any Intel modern chipset..
This makes SiS an excellent option for AMD based motherboards, but why on Earth would you pair an Intel processor with anything other than an Intel chipset? The whole point of paying the $$ for an Intel CPU is the benefit of getting to use their chipset. Works with everything, always.
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That's worth the extra $20.
FishTankX - Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - link
Did I miss something? IN the conclusion it said it packs dual channel 128 bit DDR?