The last year has been a tough one on VIA’s chipset department. Delays of their new south bridge and a lack of vendor support for their north bridge chips have left the AMD enthusiast crown on the heads of NVIDIA’s nForce4 chipsets. It wasn’t always like this; when the K8 first made its appearance, the K8T800 and K8T800 Pro chipsets were widely accepted as the best option for an Athlon 64 platform. The nForce3 chipset was the best offering NVIDIA had at the time, and though it wasn’t a bad product, it offered nothing over VIA’s K8 series in terms of performance and VIA had a definite price advantage.
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Nov 22, 2005, 06:45 PM
