Hi all, I have seen a comment or two on this list concering SiS chipset motherboards and one person that was completely against using this chipset. I am wondering what the general consensus is on the SiS motherboards? The reason I ask is that ECS makes a very nice motherboard/s and some of them use the SiS chipset which they are able to get very good results with as far as performance and overclocking. Of course, I am sure there is a site comparing all these things, but as a relative newbie still, I don't know where they all are yet. I like to hear it directly from the users themselves also, their experiences, pros & cons. So what do you think of the SiS chipset motherboards? Like them, don't like them? Does Linux like them or not? Thanks for your comments. end of line Tracer -- ---KMail 1.3.1--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
Tracer Bullet wrote:
Hi all, I have seen a comment or two on this list concering SiS chipset
pros & cons. So what do you think of the SiS chipset motherboards? Like them, don't like them? Does Linux like them or not? Thanks for your comments.
I'm not sure about the 5513, but the sis6328 AGP video chipset which comes integrated with some motherboards is not working well with the new X servers. The chipset usually comes with 8 meg video ram, but because of adressing problems, the X-server will only be able to use 1 meg. Although the chipset does work well, I would avoid sis agp video.
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Tracer Bullet wrote:
Hi all, I have seen a comment or two on this list concering SiS chipset
pros & cons. So what do you think of the SiS chipset motherboards? Like them, don't like them? Does Linux like them or not? Thanks for your comments.
I'm not sure about the 5513, but the sis6328 AGP video chipset which comes integrated with some motherboards is not working well with the new X servers. The chipset usually comes with 8 meg video ram, but because of adressing problems, the X-server will only be able to use 1 meg. Although the chipset does work well, I would avoid sis agp video.
Thanks zentara, I will make a note of the integrated video units, don't care much for those anyway. I think about all the integrated motherboards are ones to stay away from no matter who does the chipset. Some work better than others, but better off not to use them if possible. The motherboard I was interested in has the SiS735 chipset, which I saw some pretty good reviews about. A better chipset than AMD760 and the VIA266 motherboards. www.tomshardware.com has some pretty good info, I've found recently. -- ---KMail 1.3.1--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
Tracer Bullet wrote:
I will make a note of the integrated video units, don't care much for those anyway. I think about all the integrated motherboards are ones to stay away from no matter who does the chipset. Some work better than others, but better off not to use them if possible. The motherboard I was interested in has the SiS735 chipset, which I saw some pretty good reviews about. A better chipset than AMD760 and the VIA266 motherboards. www.tomshardware.com has some pretty good info, I've found recently.
Yeah, I went and looked at the ECS K7S5A motherboard which uses the SiS735, there was a glowing recommendation of it, and I bought one. Darn good deal for the price. :-) The reason I'm buying it, is because my current mobo has the integrated SiS6326 video, with no AGP slot. This new board and a Duron processor is less than $100. :-)
www.tomshardware.com is a great site for reviews of this type. They have recent articles comparing the latest and greatest chipsets from Intel, AMD, VIA and SIS for both Intel and AMD platforms (as appropriate). They were in raptures over the latest SIS chipset for P4, 'cos it spanks the bottom of all the others. They do a lot of pretty graphs, too, if you like graphs. Personally, I had my own fatwa on SIS for many years. Their old integrated efforts back in the bad old days were a total nightmare. It seems that they have moved with the times, so I'm keeping an eye on them again. Unfortunately for them, VIA modified its last Athlon chipset and made it work properly, so VIA are once again king of the heap for Athlon mobos. Check out Tom's site, it's well worth it. Bye for now, Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: suse-linux-e-return-76932-stuart=yorkshirepudding.com@suse.com [mailto:suse-linux-e-return-76932-stuart=yorkshirepudding.com@suse.com]O n Behalf Of Tracer Bullet Sent: 24 October 2001 15:47 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] SiS chipsets? Hi all, I have seen a comment or two on this list concering SiS chipset motherboards and one person that was completely against using this chipset. I am wondering what the general consensus is on the SiS motherboards? The reason I ask is that ECS makes a very nice motherboard/s and some of them use the SiS chipset which they are able to get very good results with as far as performance and overclocking. Of course, I am sure there is a site comparing all these things, but as a relative newbie still, I don't know where they all are yet. I like to hear it directly from the users themselves also, their experiences, pros & cons. So what do you think of the SiS chipset motherboards? Like them, don't like them? Does Linux like them or not? Thanks for your comments. end of line Tracer -- ---KMail 1.3.1--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com
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