SiS 655FX Reference Board Review

zerodamage · Dec 11, 2003, 04:59 PM

" Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) has been in the chipset market for many years now, however, until recently, seemed to focus on value chipsets as their primary market area. Well, those days are over, and SiS is now a worthy competitor along side many of the other big boys such as Intel and VIA, in the never ending battle for speed. When the Intel Granite Bay platform was released (E7205), SiS also introduced the SiS655 chipset, which showed many users just exactly what SiS is capable of. The SiS655 platform was king of the hill, setting new memory and gaming records while maintaining utmost stability.

Today we’ll be taking a look at the SiS655FX reference motherboard, which has a few more improvements over the SiS655 chipset. Among these features include 800FSB support (Pentium 4 C), and dual channel DDR400, offering bandwidth up to 6.4GB/sec. Bundled with the SiS655FX northbridge chip is also the SiS964 southbridge chip, offering the ability to use all the latest common features in PC’s today, such as RAID and Serial ATA."

Source: MonkeyReview

Dec 11, 2003, 04:59 PM	#1
zerodamage HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,478 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	SiS 655FX Reference Board Review " Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) has been in the chipset market for many years now, however, until recently, seemed to focus on value chipsets as their primary market area. Well, those days are over, and SiS is now a worthy competitor along side many of the other big boys such as Intel and VIA, in the never ending battle for speed. When the Intel Granite Bay platform was released (E7205), SiS also introduced the SiS655 chipset, which showed many users just exactly what SiS is capable of. The SiS655 platform was king of the hill, setting new memory and gaming records while maintaining utmost stability. Today we’ll be taking a look at the SiS655FX reference motherboard, which has a few more improvements over the SiS655 chipset. Among these features include 800FSB support (Pentium 4 C), and dual channel DDR400, offering bandwidth up to 6.4GB/sec. Bundled with the SiS655FX northbridge chip is also the SiS964 southbridge chip, offering the ability to use all the latest common features in PC’s today, such as RAID and Serial ATA." Source: MonkeyReview