> > > Most AMD motherboards use performance crippled VIA > > > chipsets. How good the CPU is matters little when the primary bottleneck > > > is the I/O bus.
> > IMHO, via has been making great chipset for ages. > > I don't think so. I found the article that lead to my comment: > http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/index.html No one makes the perfect chip/chipset; if someone did, everyone would buy. Right now, you would be hardpressed to match the price/performance ratio of AMD processor/VIA KT266A mobo combo with Intel. AFAIK, Intel P4 chipsets only support SDR and RAMBUS... Intel != fast performance. Sometimes they get it right (440BX), sometimes they get it wrong (i810e), sometimes they just get greedy (P4 423 pin -- unupgradable; P4s not dual-capable). For the record, I'd rather not give my money to The Man. :-) Plus I have to give props to a company that makes it easy to adjust your CPU's multiplier setting (AMD). Terry
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