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 MajinKenshinToo Much Talking, More Fighting
join:2002-04-10
UK | reply to z28kindaguy
Re: Do Via chipsets have comp issues with Audigy? I've got to defend CodeZero again on this one 
I have previously posted this link in another thread, and i do believe that it is once again warranted for this discussion:
»www.matrox.com/video/support/rtx···sets.cfm
Have a look at the unsupported chipsets, oh look, all VIA chipsets are incompatible, all the way up to the KT400(i'm sure their newer P4 chipsets still have the same problem and Matrox couldn't be bothered to list them).
For any PCI device that needs any amount of bandwidth, the VIA chipsets are deemed.....useless, unless anyone can prove otherwise, I'd appreciate it if a website could actually run some latency/bandwidth tests on everyones chipsets, that would kill this discussion completely.
There is no way in hell that I'd buy a motherboard that had any kind of VIA chipset on it.
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 CylonRedPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | said by MajinKenshin:
I've got to defend CodeZero again on this one
I have previously posted this link in another thread, and i do believe that it is once again warranted for this discussion:
»www.matrox.com/video/support/rtx···sets.cfm
Have a look at the unsupported chipsets, oh look, all VIA chipsets are incompatible, all the way up to the KT400(i'm sure their newer P4 chipsets still have the same problem and Matrox couldn't be bothered to list them).
For any PCI device that needs any amount of bandwidth, the VIA chipsets are deemed.....useless, unless anyone can prove otherwise, I'd appreciate it if a website could actually run some latency/bandwidth tests on everyones chipsets, that would kill this discussion completely.
There is no way in hell that I'd buy a motherboard that had any kind of VIA chipset on it.
MATROX does not support them - plenty of others do with no problems. If Creative and Matrox do not want to make good drivers - fine - I won't buy anything from them (and currently don't). They want to cut out a large part of the home builder group - fine - they won't get sales from us. Funny thing is I got my mom a Matrox card and it works BEAUTIFULLY with the VIA chipset.
If the chipset has suck problems with bandwidth then it should be obvious and I have yet to see anything that says the chipset has limited bandwidth - probably bacause MANY things affect bandwidth and it would be difficult to prove it was solely the chipset.
Just because a manufacturer does nto support a chipset with their driver - really means nothing. nVidia/ATI supports VIA with no problems and they are BOTH better companies than Matrox (when was the last time Matrox had a merely good gaming card? 3-5 years ago? 'Nuff said...
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