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Socket-A Chipset Roundup

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the little-bit-of-this-a-little-bit-of-that dept.

EconolineCrush writes: "The Tech Report has a review up of VIA's new KT333 Socket A chipset. Though it's really a review of the KT333, a total of seven different chipsets from VIA, SiS, AMD, and NVIDIA are compared to determine the uniprocessor Socket A performance king. This is definitely worth checking out if you're in the market for an AMD platform, or are curious to see how your current chipset stacks up against the latest and greatest."

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  1. Tom's hardware by brer_rabbit · · Score: 5, Funny

    I find it amusing how Tom's always reduces things to frames per second in Quake3. As if that's the best measure of performance for any component of a system.

    I imagine in the future, manufacturers, instead of listing [MHz, drive speed, etc], will list modifiers to Quake3 FPS. ie- specs on a system of the future will read like a Dungeons & Dragons character sheet:

    Bob's Machine of 3l33t Gaming
    CPU of giant GHZ: +100 FPS
    Elven Motherboard: +5 FPS
    GPU of Rendering: +80 FPS
    Cursed Hard drive:-15 FPS
    magic DDR memory: +20 FPS
    ISA SB16: -20 FPS
    -----------------
    Save vs Quake3: 170 FPS