Soltek SL-PT880Pro-FGR: VIA Dual-Channel for the Pentium 4
by Wesley Fink on February 23, 2004 4:58 PM EST- Posted in
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3.2C: Gaming Performance and Media Encoding
The gaming area is not a particularly strong performer for the PT880PRO. When we tested the first production SiS655TX motherboards, we found they equaled or exceeded results with the top Intel 875 board. The PT880 equals or is slower than Intel's 875 chipset. It is the slowest of the 3 Dual-Channel chipsets in Quake 3, Aquamark 3, UT2003 Flyby and Botmatch, and X2. Performance is about even with the Intel 875 in Splinter Cell and Comanche 4.
Media Encoding performance is basically the same as the excellent performance we see with the Intel 875 chipset, which is high praise. Since we are now using XMpeg 5.03 with Divx 5.1.1, earlier tests with the SiS655TX could not be compared to these results.
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snide23 - Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - link
RE: how did it work - so far it is working great, but there appears to be an issue with the Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro running at AGP 8X setting, though.yak8998 - Monday, February 23, 2004 - link
I skimmed through the article, and was very pleased, especially about the price/features. But then I read about the trashy OC abilities. If they can get this chipset to overclock like an 865/875 board it will be one of the best chipsets to date (and they have to keep the price low)KristopherKubicki - Monday, February 23, 2004 - link
PT880 is kind of an intermediate chipset, i am more interested in pt890.Kristopher
GonzoDaGr8 - Monday, February 23, 2004 - link
Snide, How did that PT880 work out for ya?snide23 - Monday, February 23, 2004 - link
Odd that this is the first board they have seen with the PT880 chipset. NewEgg has been selling the MSI Neo PT880 for a while now. I have already built one system with it.