VIA PT Series: VIA PCI Express for Intel
by Wesley Fink on January 31, 2005 12:01 PM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
DirectX 9 Gaming Performance
VIA PT894 is the top Intel CPU performer in Far Cry, Halo, and Aquamark 3. The 894 is a close number 2 among Intel CPU boards in UT2004 and Doom3. Overall, the DirectX 9 gaming performance places VIA at the top of our benchmarks as the fastest Socket 775 chipset for Direct X 9 gaming. The AMD Athlon 64 processors are still the best CPUs for DX9 games, but the VIA PT894 is a very good performer, especially compared to other chipsets for Intel 775.
Since the VIA 894 will likely sell below the price of current Intel 915 chipset boards, it is worth pointing out that VIA outperforms the 915 in almost every benchmark that we ran. Keep in mind the significant fact that VIA is outperforming the best Intel chipset boards, which are using fast DDR2 memory, when the VIA that we tested was equipped with DDR memory slots.
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nserra - Monday, January 31, 2005 - link
DDR dimm have 184 pin so:- Amd socket 939 = socket 754 + 184 pin = 938 pin
- Amd socket 754 - 184 = 570 pin (with out the on board memory controller)
Intel new P4 socket have 775, why?
xsilver - Monday, January 31, 2005 - link
while the above are correctI refer to the fsb 1066 is not working currently statment --- how can this be good for overclocking?
its probably not working because of the AGP/PCI lock -- im an owner of the kt800 chipset and while the lock does work as they claim -- it kills itself at around 270fsb
k00kie - Monday, January 31, 2005 - link
Wow, these VIA chipsets sure have the potential to give competition to Intel's and Nvidia's offerings. I hope they execute this one properly.2 - Yeah, there's a pretty good chance much of what we see with these chips will be brought to whatever VIA's working on for their upcoming chipsets for AMD's K8 processors
Manzelle - Monday, January 31, 2005 - link
The fact that the PT880 supports both AGP and PCIe makes it very attractive. I wonder if VIA will implement the same with their AMD line...ChineseDemocracyGNR - Monday, January 31, 2005 - link
Wow, I'm impressed. I didn't expect the PT894 to keep up with the 915/925 chipsets, but it's actually faster in a number of benchmarks.The VT8251 is very impressive too, specially if they can get it out soon for K8T890 boards. That's the best southbridge in my opinion, compared to Intel's ICH6 family and nVidia's nForce4 Ultra.