pentiumspeed wrote:I had rather bad experience with this chipset on socket 462. Did VIA made other chipsets that good for different CPUs other than AMD?
Not really. I actually just received such a board (the 4CoreDual-SATA2) and have been putting it through its paces. It's measurably slower than Intel chipsets, especially with nVidia video cards (2D speed in XP is very slow with NV AGP and PCIe cards. However, using Win7 seems to solve this).
It's also not very stable at 1066MHz FSB. Despite proudly advertising FSB1066 support on the PCB itself, it automatically downclocks FSB1066 CPUs to 1024MHz. My E6600 only runs at 2.3GHz, unless I go into the BIOS and force it to run at 1066/2.4GHz. But at that speed, I get all sorts of fun errors, especially in Windows 7.
Really, the only VIA chipset that's given me great performance across the board is actually a P3 chipset, the Apollo Pro 266T DDR chipset. Somewhat miraculously, it's the only VIA chipset I've used that lets me use an NV GPU without killing 2D speed.
94 MHz NEC VR4300 | SGI Reality CoPro | 8MB RDRAM | Each game gets its own SSD - nooice!