SiS's 648 chipset

~~David~~ · Jul 23, 2002, 07:17 AM

Guys over at The Tech Report Have writen a good review of the new Sis chipset for the P4.

Little SiS brings big things to the Pentium 4

The 648 chipset has nearly every one of the latest features you might want in a new chipset. The 648 north bridge chip has a revamped AGP interface with AGP 8X support and—surprise!—twice the bandwidth of AGP 4X solutions. The front-side bus supports the latest Pentium 4 chips with 533MHz bus speeds. And the reworked memory controller is faster than in the 645/645DX chipsets, with the ability to host three DIMMs of DDR266 memory or two DIMMs of DDR333. Unofficially, the 648 will support DDR400, as well—the necessary bus-to-memory clock ratio is there, and it worked flawlessly in our tests with a single stick of Corsair DDR400 memory. (When the time comes, I expect SiS to release a "648DX" chip that's unchanged in silicon but has official support for DDR400.)

Read the rull review HERE

Jul 23, 2002, 07:17 AM	#1
~~David~~ Banned Join Date: May 2002 Location: Atlanta Posts: 959 Rep Power: 0	SiS's 648 chipset Guys over at The Tech Report Have writen a good review of the new Sis chipset for the P4. Little SiS brings big things to the Pentium 4 The 648 chipset has nearly every one of the latest features you might want in a new chipset. The 648 north bridge chip has a revamped AGP interface with AGP 8X support and—surprise!—twice the bandwidth of AGP 4X solutions. The front-side bus supports the latest Pentium 4 chips with 533MHz bus speeds. And the reworked memory controller is faster than in the 645/645DX chipsets, with the ability to host three DIMMs of DDR266 memory or two DIMMs of DDR333. Unofficially, the 648 will support DDR400, as well—the necessary bus-to-memory clock ratio is there, and it worked flawlessly in our tests with a single stick of Corsair DDR400 memory. (When the time comes, I expect SiS to release a "648DX" chip that's unchanged in silicon but has official support for DDR400.) Read the rull review HERE