swaaye wrote:

But if you are happy with your VIA boards I wouldn't bother to spend the money on a 512MB gimped 815.

However, i815 boards are going DIRT CHEAP atm, along with the coppermines.

Tetrium wrote:

swaaye wrote:

But if you are happy with your VIA boards I wouldn't bother to spend the money on a 512MB gimped 815.

However, i815 boards are going DIRT CHEAP atm, along with the coppermines.

Ahh, yes.

I just got a Intel 815EP board (Non B-Step or non Tualatin). Dunno if it works yet. With one of my 12 extra Pentium III-S 1400MHz I may try the pin-mod and see how it works.

Need to lookup which 815 chipset got the better Northbridge to Southbridge interconnect of 8bit x 266MHz. Via didn't copy it till the KT333 chipsets with V-link. Everything from the 440BX, Via 133A/T, KT133 and such used PCI bus width (32bit x 33mhz) for connecting the NB/SB which can kill performance.

EDIT: Found the article about newer interconnect bus: http://www.anandtech.com/show/703/4 <-links to page 4 where it talks about the V-Link and Intel Hub which use 8Bit bus 266MB/s vs. PCI 32bit bus 133MB/s.

So anything 8xx chipset, or Pro266/KT266 should get you rolling with better bandwidth and probably why Swaaye likes his 815EPT better.

If only a Pro266T, 840, 815EPT could be reasonably found 😁 I do have a ECS K7VTA3 athlon KT266 board it looks like but don't want the higher thermals 😀