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Cowboy X said:Don't be hasty , that is still a prerelease board on early drivers . Suffice to say that if you do not plan extreme overclocking I think it is likely going to be the best chipset out there for now . Anything beyond a mild overclock and the bndwidth problems mentioned by BHD will come in to play coupled with the PT800 chipset's lack of an AGP-PCI lock . No board in this day and age should be released without one .
Cowboy X said:As far as I know the 848P is just a single channel cheap version of the 865PE chipset and thus should have an AGP-PCI lock .
The SIS 648FX is just a rehashed version of a previous chipset ( SIS 648 ) made to allow use of hyperthreading and the newer Intel processors . But the older SIS 648 chipset from last year ahd an AGP-PCI lock so I'd pretty much expect the FX version to have it as well .
Cowboy X said:I would rather buy an 865 board over both of them . But it depends on the price and your pocket . When the 648 was new only an Intel Granite Bay board or an Intel i8502 board with pc1066 or higher Rambus could beat it . But it was hampered by the lack of hyperthreading support and it's initial AGP problems with the Radeon 9700 pro .And since then several better soloutions have been released ( 865 , 875 ). Unless there are special features in the 648FX beyond bugfixes and hyperthreading/800 fsb support of which I am not aware ( I do not claim to be an Intel expert ) , the 848p should be a better and also safer buy . The best thing for you to do however is to find some benchmarks of the 848 p in action .
larva said:If you work hard enough at it, you can get good results with a 1.8a and single channel chipsets. I use the 845pe-equipped P4PE to run my C1 1.8 at 180 fsb with the 4:5 memory ration, producing 450MHz on the ram. My ram tolerates 2-2-2-5 timing at this clock rate (BH6 Winbond chips) on 2.9V. This 3.2GHz combination offers 95-99% of the application performance of the newer dual channel options for peanuts. But as always with overclocking, getting a truly talented cpu and stick of ram is crucial to these kinds of results.