Soltek SL-PT880Pro-FGR: VIA Dual-Channel for the Pentium 4
by Wesley Fink on February 23, 2004 4:58 PM EST- Posted in
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3.2E & 3.2EE: Content Creation and General Usage Performance
Content Creation and General Usage results with the 3.2EE are basically the same pattern we saw with the 3.2C, with the PT880 trailing Intel 875 by a small margin. However, the results with Prescott are a bit strange on the VIA chipset. We cannot explain the extremely low results with the PT880Pro General Usage or Office 2004 benchmarks. We repeated the tests several times and achieved the same unusual results.
Perhaps there are some additional BIOS optimizations that may be needed for best performance of the Prescott on the PT880.
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snide23 - Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - link
RE: how did it work - so far it is working great, but there appears to be an issue with the Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro running at AGP 8X setting, though.yak8998 - Monday, February 23, 2004 - link
I skimmed through the article, and was very pleased, especially about the price/features. But then I read about the trashy OC abilities. If they can get this chipset to overclock like an 865/875 board it will be one of the best chipsets to date (and they have to keep the price low)KristopherKubicki - Monday, February 23, 2004 - link
PT880 is kind of an intermediate chipset, i am more interested in pt890.Kristopher
GonzoDaGr8 - Monday, February 23, 2004 - link
Snide, How did that PT880 work out for ya?snide23 - Monday, February 23, 2004 - link
Odd that this is the first board they have seen with the PT880 chipset. NewEgg has been selling the MSI Neo PT880 for a while now. I have already built one system with it.