NeghVar
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What do you believe to be the best chipset of all time?
For me, Intel 440BX
For me, Intel 440BX
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That would be the oft-mentioned 440BX. I know, I still have a BP6 boxed up in storage.Whatever was in the Abit BP6..
I miss my old A3D sound card, too...NVIDIA's nForce2 deserves an honorable mention just for SoundStorm, though. They actually had the balls to do hardware sound acceleration on an integrated audio DSP instead of on the host CPU, and even made Dolby Digital Live! a selling point long before add-on sound cards could boast it. Sensaura's virtual surround tech was standard, too. It almost makes up for the loss of Aureal after Creative basically sued them into bankruptcy... almost.
Hey, I still keep a Turtle Beach Montego II (Vortex2) I found in a local shop in my retrogaming build. Works quite nicely in Win98SE like I'd expect.I miss my old A3D sound card, too...
440BX, literally no contest not only due to its real world history but it lives on as the logical template for a LOT of virtual machine platforms. Still supported by almost everything because of this.
440BX and X58
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680i is the chipset equivalent of herpes.
The 440BX is hard to beat. Personally I think I give the edge to nForce on the athlon system though. It actually made the athlon platform usable. Remember the shitty via chipsets that had issues with randomly corrupting ide hard drives? The sis chipsets sucked as well. It actually made the platform stable.
Without the nForce chipsets, I wouldn't have ever used the AMD platform, regardless of how fast it was.
Without the nForce chipsets, I wouldn't have ever used the AMD platform, regardless of how fast it was.
Without the nForce chipsets, I wouldn't have ever used the AMD platform, regardless of how fast it was.
Which is funny because for the intel platforms nForce chipsets generally were terrible.
What generation was good? I had each generation and they all had issues compared to a standard intel chipset.Not generally, universally.
What generation was good? I had each generation and they all had issues compared to a standard intel chipset.
The post I quoted was concerning NVIDIA chipsets being "generally terrible" for the Intel platform. I simply stated this was a universal truth and not a general one.
I had several 440BX boards from P2-266 all the way to P3-1Ghz and all were rock solid. Honourable mention to X38 tho 'cause I had a board (ASUS Maximus Formula) which ran a Q6600 OC'd with the FSB and RAM all running over spec rock solid and Folding 24/7 for just shy of 10 years before the board went.