Industry Insider Report: Intel Chipsets Excellent, Processors Poor

Vikingod · May 24, 2005, 04:12 PM

Intel has a long history of producing excellent chipsets. They are stable, offer excellent features and are more versatile than competing chipsets. In fact, Intel’s 915/925 chipsets would’ve followed the same pattern of excellence, but combined with immature technologies at the time, high performance to price ratio and sub-par performance of its Prescott microprocessors, the platform failed to deliver. Apparently, you can’t blame the chipsets for this; maybe they would’ve been just as competitive as their predecessors, 865/875, if the aforementioned technologies didn’t hold them back. Even after that, the 915/925 chipsets has exciting technologies integrated in them for the best possible feature set.

That being said, in a meeting with few of our sources, they revealed that Intel’s chipsets are actually fairly impressive, but it’s their microprocessors that are holding back the platform’s true potential. The sources revealed that Intel has what it takes to deliver the right mix of technologies, but the past year hasn’t been too exciting for them.

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hohum · May 24, 2005, 09:24 PM

I'd agree with that statement. Love their chipsets (the 850 chipset I have has never given me any problems with hardware/software), but their processors have taken a step backward since Prescott. It seems they tried to lead the way in performance by brute force, which hasn't worked - meaning their processors guzzle large amounts of power yet don't perform as well in most situations versus AMD.

May 24, 2005, 04:12 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,187 Rep Power: 109 System Specs	Industry Insider Report: Intel Chipsets Excellent, Processors Poor Intel has a long history of producing excellent chipsets. They are stable, offer excellent features and are more versatile than competing chipsets. In fact, Intel’s 915/925 chipsets would’ve followed the same pattern of excellence, but combined with immature technologies at the time, high performance to price ratio and sub-par performance of its Prescott microprocessors, the platform failed to deliver. Apparently, you can’t blame the chipsets for this; maybe they would’ve been just as competitive as their predecessors, 865/875, if the aforementioned technologies didn’t hold them back. Even after that, the 915/925 chipsets has exciting technologies integrated in them for the best possible feature set. That being said, in a meeting with few of our sources, they revealed that Intel’s chipsets are actually fairly impressive, but it’s their microprocessors that are holding back the platform’s true potential. The sources revealed that Intel has what it takes to deliver the right mix of technologies, but the past year hasn’t been too exciting for them. Read More: CoolTechZone __________________ *How You Can Help DriverHeaven By Using Digg*

May 24, 2005, 09:24 PM	#2
hohum HardwareHeaven Addict Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: UK Posts: 298 Rep Power: 54	I'd agree with that statement. Love their chipsets (the 850 chipset I have has never given me any problems with hardware/software), but their processors have taken a step backward since Prescott. It seems they tried to lead the way in performance by brute force, which hasn't worked - meaning their processors guzzle large amounts of power yet don't perform as well in most situations versus AMD.