Worst chipset of all time?

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Curious question as i can't find anything on this subject lol, what do you guys think the worst is?
 
Agreed. I've never had anything but nightmares with the nVidia chipsets. 680i tops the list.
 
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I never dealt with the nForce 600 series (thankfully). Just came from 570SLI that was rock solid for the past 5 years.

My worst experiences were with some of the Super7 SiS 530/540 chipsets with Cyrix and AMD CPU's. MoBo's with Via VP3/MVP3 became my budget choice soon after that.
 
I was going to say the same. I still have a few 680i and 780i boards that are as backups, but nothing more.
 
completely agree, the 6X0i series were complete garbage. so glad Nvidia finally decided to get out of the chipset business all be it about 5 years to late. more so for the fact we can finally get SLI on AMD boards again.
 
The 680i was a mess, I won't buy an Intel board with an nVidia chipset again. I can also remember having all kinds of issues with the Intel 820 chipset
 
still have a 680i system going that has been going strong since like 2006 or 7.
 
VX Pro / TX Pro / HX Pro, etc - Nothing more than VIA VP2, ALi IV (?) and one other crappy chipset, thrown on awful quality motherboards. I remember some of these TX Pro motherboards having ISA slots that were so noisy, that when you plugged an internal modem into them, that they'd be buzzing loudly upon activation.

Intel 815 - Rambus memory on a Pentium III? Come on...
 
VIA chipsets are/were the worst ever. Although, the VP2 was the best they ever made and was the chipset AMD wanted to pair it up with the K6; which led to the AMD640. That was the only good they ever did do in computerdom. I had the FIC PA-2007 and was able to use 192MB of RAM with caching because of tag-ram support.
 
I remember that being a credo way back when but I don't remember any of the mobos that I owned with via chipsets crapping out on me or anything. What was so bad about them?
 
munkle said:
Hey the nforce 4 boards on 939 were pretty rock solid.

Worst chipset for me is probably the old ati chipsets for p4's they never seemed to work quite right or would die.
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Yep, I have a NF4 board and an oc'd Opteron 165 still rockin' solid. :)

Think my Alt Box is a NF2 board and XP-M 2500 which still gets the job done as a file server.

The only thing that has taken out my systems have been: a BIOS flash gone bad.....and spilling water on top of my case....

As long as I keep the water away they do OK. :p
And since BIOS flashing has come out of the dark ages, its been non-issue.
 
Not sure if its the worst "of all time", but my personal worst experience was with a VIA KT133 implemented on an ECS motherboard back in the day. The NF2 I got after that was worlds better
 
I'd say VIA. ~10 years ago I had a VIA chipset that would just lock the whole computer up unless I was running a specific set of their 4-in-1 drivers.

Ever feel like upgrading those drivers? Too bad!

New video card? Hope you like re-installing windows!

I was upgrading from a 440BX chipset which was about the most stable thing I've ever used. I've had some 680i/780i issues, but they were nothing compared to VIA.
 
I did not like VIA platform and Nvidia 600 series was not very good either (feature wise for the time).
 
VIA and their chipset drivers were a miserable experience. I didn't mind the nForce2 chipset for a few motherboards that I had.
 
680i? Really?

That's interesting to me because I had a 680i running for about 2 years with no stability problems. One day, the board just refused to POST, I sent it back in for a replacement and hadn't have a problem since. The replacement board lasted me 2 more years before I sold it.

I consider the whole, non-POST-ing thing to be something any board could possibly do, but I never had any problems with the board otherwise.
 
NF4 followed by the 680s.

NF4s produced fucking tons of dead boards due to chipset issues... The 680s were hot, power hungry, and had issues as well. Glad nVidia stopped making that POS.
 
So many VIA's, but weren't nForce the chipsets that ran super hot? At least the VIA chipsets wouldn't die on you despite the driver issues.
 
I wonder how did nVidia screw up so bad. I remember having a nForce 2 that was rock solid.
 
VIA Apollo 133. Would only run at 2x agp with an nvidia card even though it was supposed to handle 8xagp. Nivida said it was the chipset problem via said it was an nvidia problem.
 
fullvietFX said:
I wonder how did nVidia screw up so bad. I remember having a nForce 2 that was rock solid.
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how? by not producing their chipsets inhouse after the nforce 4 chipset. after that manufacturing was moved to 3rd party companies to produce so the QC went to shit.


Arcygenical said:
NF4 followed by the 680s.

NF4s produced fucking tons of dead boards due to chipset issues... The 680s were hot, power hungry, and had issues as well. Glad nVidia stopped making that POS.
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mm the NF3 250Gb was the best and worst chipset Nvidia ever released though(if thats even possible).. great overclocking board but it would only support a handful of graphic cards and you couldn't even use an ATI card on the board. Nvidia even admitted they could of fixed it years later but didn't even bother doing it.
 
VIA was the worst by far, anyone saying nVidia probably wasn't using computers in the Socket 7/Slot 1 era when VIA was the only real chipset maker besides Intel. AGP issues, memory compatibility issues, horrid drivers that were never fixed, features that VIA claimed were supported that really weren't. VIA just sucked from every angle when it came to chipsets. VIA probably single handedly slowed down AMD's rise to popularity because they were about the only mainstream chipset available for AMD platforms for a long time.
 
No hate for the Irongate chipset? That was a turd for sure. I had a MSI K7Pro and it needed so much help!

I don't care for the old Via Apollo Pro133 more so for the Manufacturers never fixing the bios settings as they should have. Like the harddrive and soundblaster live fiaso!!.
 
VIA KT133. You want to run a sound card on that? Too bad. Snap Crackle Pop Rice Krispies.
 
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