nForce 3 150 vs. VIA K8T800

[David G. Lawrence]

> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, David G. Lawrence wrote:
> 
> > So, given a choice between an AMD64 motherboard with nVidia nForce
> > 3 150 chipset or VIA K8T800 chipset, which one actually works and
> > what are the tradeoffs?
> > 
> well I had a Gigabyte G-K8NS with a socket 754 and nForce 3 250
> chipset but switched to a ASUS A8V delux socket 939 with a chipset
> VIA K8T800 and the latter is better as well more things seem to work
> with less down sides. I think the latter is much better with the
> dual channel memory and runs faster. But then again this is only my
> recent experience with AMD64.

   I recall some folks were recently having stability problems with one
of the VIA chipsets - any idea which chipset that was?

-DG

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