SiS 645 slår i850

Anandtech har fået fingrene i et test-bundkort fra SiS baseret på deres seneste 645 chipset til Intel's Pentium 4 processor. SiS 645 er det første chipset med officiel support for 333 MHz PC2700 DDR-SDRAM. Og til trods for at det er en tidlig test-version er SiS 645 hurtigere end Intels eget i850 chipset i samtlige tests. SiS har licens fra Intel til at producere chipsets der understøtter Pentium 4, og derfor vil vi sikkert se mnage bundkort med SiS 645 chipsettet, de første af dem skulle være i butikkerne sidst i November, eller i starten af December.

The SiS 645 doesn't hold much of a performance advantage over the VIA P4X266 or the Intel 850 but it should be pointed out that it is technically faster than both of those solutions. And the timing on the 645, albeit a little later than SiS would have liked to gain the full effect of a "legitimate" Pentium 4 chipset, couldn't have been better. Motherboard manufacturers have clearly expressed interest in the solution and will most likely pursue 645 based designs unless things settle between Intel and VIA very soon. There is one kink in this plan for chipset domination however, and that is Intel's own DDR solution for the Pentium 4.

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