Should i jump the boat?

[CUViper 0]

I've got a SiS board (Asus P4S533) - I admit it had some problems at first, but after up[censored] the BIOS and the IDE drivers, it has been rock solid...

[clutch 1]

My SiS was cheaper than either the Intel or Via-based options for my P4.

[Four and Twenty 0]

i whish they would make an nforce for the p4

or at least a dual cpu nforce

the nforce 2 has dual everything else it would be sweet if they took dual procs aswell

[Brian Frank 0]

Ditto there man. nForce is the best chipset available for the AMD side of things. Stable computing for me helped big time when I stopped using Win9x, but moving to an nForce and not overclocking helped my uptime tremendously. I do have a KT133 board (Asus A7V---the best KT133 board, IMO) as my file server, and I don't use that much---but it does work fine. I do think that certain companies can build better products based on a particular chipset than other companies can---I've not had trouble with Tyan or Asus products running any chipset---but I do think that Via is going to have to haul ass since they have to contend with SiS and nVidia (and ALi/Iwill).

I try to be as neutral as possible, but now that there are good alternatives to Via, I'm going to be checking them out.

[pimpin_228 0]

well my box runs fine, i just got an athlon xp 1800,and it has somebeater cooler,never goes over 120 with the sides of case on and the only ventaltion is the ps fan.but for me i havn't had any probs since i got rid of the 1.3.

[Four and Twenty 0]

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well my box runs fine, i just got an athlon xp 1800,and it has somebeater cooler,never goes over 120 with the sides of case on and the only ventaltion is the ps fan.but for me i havn't had any probs since i got rid of the 1.3.

it would probably be a good idea to get some fans in there

[sapiens74 0]

My friend Bought a nice water cooler, his athlon never went over 30C