Reply 20 of 28, by kjliew
Were you running the BX at 133MHz which also overclocked the AGP bus?
Looking at Quake2 benchmark archive, it could be what VIA could do best. Intel chipsets has traditionally beaten VIA hard on concurrent bandwidth and latency. VIA made good improvements to catch up on latency with the VIA Apollo Pro 133A, but remained uncompetitive on concurrent bandwidth. If memory serves me right, I think both BX and i815 feature doubled the IOQ depth of any VIA chipsets at the time.
BTW, id Quake series had always been the bandwidth showcase for Intel.