After the Pentium 4 line with FSB 800 MHz was announced we looked over all chipsets offered by Intel for the new processors. But there are no chipsets we would unconditionally recommend you. The i875P (Canterwood) is certainly faster than its dual-channel brothers of the i865 family (Springdale) but its release price is noticeably higher, and the layout is much more complicated. Moreover, the
mobo makers willingly believed Intel that the i875P should be positioned for the top desktop systems and even entry-level workstations, and equipped their Canterwood based models with a great deal of peripheral controllers, good accessory packs and stuck an impressive pricetags. The boards look good but too expensive.
The i865PE chipset (or i865G with an integrated video core) looks a good alternative to its elder sibling. It's not much slower, has the same functionality (except the ECC memory support) and provides a lower cost of finished solutions. But the performance level of typical i865PE based boards is comparable to the fast i845PE based levels which are officially announced for operation with the FSB 800 MHz and DDR400.
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Jul 17, 2003, 02:34 PM
