Almost got the AMD with VIA chipset!!!

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SL1200MK4
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Post by SL1200MK4 »

First of all, I am a new member to this forum, and I have own my pulsar for about 2 year, now. I have a few things list in my sig. Not that I am trying to show off, let me make that clear, I do this in car forums all da time.

I almost brough a mobo with VIA chipset. I have never realize all those issues that I must be aware of with my Pulsar.

In a way I should feel lucky that I didn't throw my money away, BUT at the same time, I have reconsider what to get all over again...

Maybe I will wait a bit and get the new P4 system with the i845 chipset then...
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Post by at0m »

Were you able to do what you expected it to do that time? Or did you have to leave your Pulsar card aside cos 'you got errors all the time'?
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Post by SL1200MK4 »

Damn, my sig didn't show like what I expected.

Well, have the P3-600, with a VIA chipset. To be honest, I have never really seem to run of PCI bandwith.

I am getting a new system because my current system is dying (bad powersupply, bad harddrive, loud as hell)

I was gonna get a mobo with VIA chipset again, but thank got I didn't. Don't know what to get now thought...
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Post by subhuman »

I have an nForce in my lab right now. :smile: I will give you it's PCI performance after the weekend, if an AMD is still of interest to you. If it's good, then I suspect ideally we'd all want the still-coming striped down version of nForce called i415 -- still dual channel DDR - but without onboard sound/video. Can't wait to find out the results myself - watch this forum :smile:

Otherwise, I would probably go with either ASUS P4B266 or ASUS P4TE, i845-DDR or i850. Both have great PCI performance and good memory bandwidth to feed a new Northwood P4... quiet, cool, and a great match with Creamware stuff.
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Post by Drum-Maker »

It would be cool!!

Because i've rdy a Thunderbird 1200 Mhz with a A7V266-E Mobo and all is going wonderful!! but i've only a Luna 2 (too poor in processing).

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Post by SL1200MK4 »

Subhuman:

Thanks for the info, my P3-600 system is dying right, now.

I outta pick up my new system 2 weeks ago, but when I realized that the VIA chipset is not good for Pulsar. I decided that I might have to go with the Northwood P4, since I don't want the AMD chipset to go with my XP.

Perhaps I will also wait and see how the strip down nForce chipset will do.

BTW, I have the VIA chipset right, now. and I only had the problem with the PCI overflow once. I only got 4 DSP on my Pulsar I, and I am not even pushing it hard. So, I guess that's why.
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Post by subhuman »

nForce had identical PCI performance to VIA KT266A - that is to say, very poor. :sad: I was <i>really</i> sad when I ran the tests and tried everything to get the numbers up higher... oh well.
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Post by marcuspocus »

We have to forget all AMD for Pulsar, that is what i think... :sad:
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Post by Gordon Gekko »

I tried: forget amd, via!forget amd, via!forget amd, via!forget amd, via!forget amd, via!forget amd, via!forget amd, via!

didn't work so what now :grin:
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Post by marcuspocus »

throw it by the window and look it crash 7 floor down... That will help you forget... Or at least take a big one and call me sometime !

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