VIA’s New Chipset Designed To Hyper-Thread

[Necide]

Better late than never?

On one hand, I don't see any reason to buy a board with one of these chipsets. It offers nothing new against boards which have been out for a little while, and will probably cost less. I can only see this driving their competition's prices down further. Way to shoot yourself in the foot, VIA!

On the other hand, I'm thinking of this from a hobbyist perspective. That doesn't factor in deals with mass distributors and such. Some people don't know or care what chipset is in their Dell or whatever the case may be. Ah well.

[RockManX]

I first read about this in "CPU" (a computer magazine) and i really was "very happy". The reason is that i have been using a lot of older VIA chipsets when working on some older PCs along with other older sets. I found that the VIA chipsets ran better than some others like SiS and older intels. And it was nice and easy to get drivers for the older chips. (not as easy as intel though) Also i have a EPIA mini-ITX computer that i made. It uses all VIA chips! It has the VIA 8601A Nouth Bridge and the VT8231 South Bridge. It runs with top preformance. Not only that the setup CD was made rather well. I think you can see that i really like the VIA chips, so i hope that this new chipset will turn out as good as the ones before it.
With all this said, i personally recomend this board. From what i have read, with VIA's FastStream 64 and deeper command, prefetch and buffers, there is more efficient data flow from memory to the CPU than ever before. ^_^

[Necide]

So correct me if I'm wrong, but here's how I see it. I said that VIA's newest chipset supports the same features other chipsets have been supporting for several months now, so what's the big deal?

You're saying, the big deal is that they don't do more, they do it better. That's a perfectly satisfactory answer for me.

But here's a new question - how is VIA going to convince people of this? I would think the majority of people would, initially, see it the way I did - "VIA is trailing behind, why bother spending money on this new product, when I can spend less for something else that did the same thing 3 months ago?"

My concern is that obviously the press release didn't get across YOUR point. So I still see it as shooting themselves in the foot by talking a big game over something that's old hat.

[rightguard]

Necide said previoiusly
"why bother spending money on this new product, when I can spend less for something else that did the same thing 3 months ago?"

this question seems so simple but is asked alot less than one would think.my brother runs a few stores that sell exactly these kinds of things,and the reason chipsets or what-have-you arrive late and still have an opportunity to do well is becuase the average shmo walking into frys or pc club etc... just wants to get a board that does the job,hopefully they have the cheapest one in stock like the ad said. so---why bother spending money on this new product, when I can spend less for something else that did the same thing 3 months ago? well ,nobodies listening. the question has a very,very,very, small audience,thats why they pay there engineers to develop them late comer systems.