Two Different Chipset Sources

[concorde]

Is it okay to have two different chipset sources on one board? I saw a board with a VIA northbridge and a ATi southbridge. Is this okay or should this be avoided at all costs?

 

[PC eye]

You can't simply choose which chipsets are used on a board. The specifications will show the chipset used by the manufacturer according to a board's design.

 

[TrainTrackHack]

Doesn't the "chipset" refer to southbridge and/or integrated peripherals?

 

[StrangleHold]

Is it okay to have two different chipset sources on one board? I saw a board with a VIA northbridge and a ATi southbridge. Is this okay or should this be avoided at all costs?

If thats what the manufacture put on the board there compatabile and should be ok, but I still would avoid it.

Doesn't the "chipset" refer to southbridge and/or integrated peripherals?

Chipset refers to the North and Southbridge.

 

[Cleric7x9]

i wouldnt get it, but not because of the two different chipset manufacturers. i just think VIA is awful.

 

[oscaryu1]

VIA is a horrible in overclocking... I wouldn't go with VIA or SiS...

 

[PC eye]

i wouldnt get it, but not because of the two different chipset manufacturers. i just think VIA is awful.

VIA and SIS chipsets are crap to begin with! You're not far off trying to avoid them. Here I end up seeing the best results working with NVidia's nForce chipsets on various boards.

 

[concorde]

I am not a gamer. All I do is use productivity suites, music, programming in Python and beginning to do it in C, and graphic design (GIMP) as well as a file server on one of my machines. I am not particularly concerned about speed as Fedora Core 9/SuSE Linux 10.3 run well on non-powerful systems. I specify Athlon 64 and maybe Athlon 64 X2 so I can keep that PC around a little longer to use future versions of Linux for the next 20+ years hey, Linux runs like a top on a Pentium iii @ 650 mHz!

 

[PC eye]

Linux is far less complicated OS to begin with being based on the old UNIX platform. The one advantage and what keeps it going is being an open source OS seeing revisions with each newer release to allow for more things. That includes to some extent the cross platform support.

As far as a good system you have to figure even with running Linux newer distros will tend to be larger in size and having a somewhat updated system will certainly every 3-5yrs at the longest. The drawback seen with AMD however is still the lack of not too many models reaching the 3ghz mark quite yet.

Once past the post tests here Vista actually loads to the desktop faster then XP with just about nothing installed but the basics on the older version. That's with a 3.013ghz dual core and 2gb of memory installed.