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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3.2C: Content Creation, General Usage, and Memory Performance
Looking at the three chipsets represented here, the SiS655TX and Intel 875 have roughly equivalent performance, while the Soltek PT880Pro with the VIA PT880 chipset is a bit slower.
Science Mark 2 was recently updated, and we used the latest 9/23/03 build for our Memory testing. As we saw in earlier benchmarks in our SiS655TX review, SiS and Intel 875 are very close in both latency and memory bandwidth in ScienceMark tests. VIA's PT880 shows higher latency and slightly lower bandwidth than the other chipsets for Pentium 4. VIA latency is about 30% higher than Intel chipsets. However, this may be the result of the unique configuration for dual-channel that VIA has developed, since memory bandwidth is only about 6% lower than Intel.
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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.