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We cover P4 quite a bit here at HEXUS. The thing is, more often than not the moherboards are Intel-based. Canterwood and Springdale offer excellent performance and a good base for full-featured boards, but there should be more to the P4 world than those chipsets. We've given VIA's PT8xx reference boards the once over recently, but have we seen production designs using that chipset from any vendors, Tier-1 or otherwise? No; we've seen none at HEXUS whatsoever.

So you'd be quite rightly convinced that Intel-based boards are all that should be on your shopping list, should P4 be your chosen CPU of choice. But as we show you every now and again with reviews of reference boards, there's more to this particular side of the fence. SiS, along with VIA, dilligently come up with chipset designs for P4 that seek to match anything that Intel can come up with. Recently, their 655 range of P4 chipsets have sought to offer performance that's within a hair's breadth of Canterwood, along with a southbridge in SiS964 that can do all that ICH5 can, for a lot less money.

Check out the full review over at Hexus

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