Comments for: Preview: VIA's K8T890 chipset

#9. Posted at 06:14 AM on Sep 24th 2004

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kvndoom

Hey, some of us dinosaurs still remember the move from ISA to PCI! It was a blessing once!!!

Anyone else ever buy a VLB video card??? :P

#9, Anyone else ever buy a VLB video card??? :P I only remember l... : Proesterchen (#11) «

#11, hey now, be nice.....I had 2 of them way back when i was ... : Felix (#12) «

#11, Hey man, i had a VLB Promise ATA controller with "ENHANCE... : adisor19 (#13) «

#13, Ahhh, how i miss ye old days of tech and stuff.....It ... : Felix (#14) «

#11, When I was using a VLB video card, PCI did not exist. So ... : d0g_p00p (#39) «

#9, I did. I think I've still got it in my crawlspace somewhere.... : just brew it! (#16) «

#18. Posted at 09:10 AM on Sep 24th 2004

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flip-mode

when are some pcie peripherals other than vid cards going to be released? I just did a search for "pci express" at newegg and turned up only motherboards and video cards.

#18, Probably when more then just Intel mobos will be available ;... : adisor19 (#20) «

#20, If you wanted to sell a expansion card of some kind, woul... : GodsMadClown (#28) «

#18, http://www.pcisig.com/developers/compliance_program/integrat... : indeego (#29) «

#29, No RAID controllers yet. No real-time encoding soundcards... : GodsMadClown (#38) «

#32. Posted at 03:03 PM on Sep 24th 2004

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zurich

Only flaw is that it's a VIA chipset.. dang it!

#32, What's wrong with a Via Chipset? : Captain AMD (#33) «

#33, Depends which way you're coming from. To me, VIA sucked ba... : stmok (#35) «

#35, Oh yes. I had no end of problems with a VIA board and ... : crichards (#36) «

#33, I still have a bad taste in my mouth from VIAs. But I gue... : Freon (#37) «

#32, zurich, that was a long time ago. http://ebounding.fobby.net/... : Dposcorp (#34) «

#1. Posted at 05:13 AM on Sep 24th 2004, Edited at 05:25 AM on Sep 24th 2004

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blitzy

good reading as usual, it's a pity there aren't more PCI-E based devices in the market to bench that sucker with...

pg2, paragraph1: "Soon, though, VIA's new VT8521 will hit the market"
I think thats supposed to be VT8251

pg2, paragraph2: "Also, like the ICH6R, the VT8237 will support the AHCI standard for Serial ATA drives."
Is that also supposed to be VT8251

Nice to see the NCQ support though, that's what I've been waiting for (along with the PCI-E support)

#1, Sorry about the typos. Our proofing was horrid on this one. ... : Damage (#22) «

#22, don't worry about it too much, you've been working your a... : blitzy (#31) «

#30. Posted at 02:23 PM on Sep 24th 2004

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Freon

Ok Shuttle, spit it out, pronto!

#27. Posted at 12:47 PM on Sep 24th 2004, Edited at 12:48 PM on Sep 24th 2004

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Lordneo

havent used a Via chipset since KT266... * shudders *

long live the mpx chipset... retiring my duallies soon
* Sniff * * sniff *

hehe i used to have a pcchips, isa/vlb/pci mobo.... that was scary.

#3. Posted at 05:26 AM on Sep 24th 2004

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MagerValp

Nearly every other port, slot, and link inside a modern computer is faster than the bus shared by a collection of 16-bit, 33MHz PCI expansion slots

I think that should be 32-bit.

#3, I was about to comment on that. You beat me to it :P Adi : adisor19 (#4) «

#3, Sorry about the typos. Our proofing was horrid on this one.... : Damage (#23) «

#23, You did fine. At least you guys are responsive in the com... : indeego (#26) «

# Not for pple with ancient mobos like me : A7M266 :( All my 5... : adisor19 (#7) «

#7, How do you get 90% when you have 5 cards/slots? ;) : indeego (#17) «

#17, You misunderstood me.. i was referring to the Firewire... : adisor19 (#19) «

#17, I think he ment 90% of the Firewire800 cards, though I... : Proesterchen (#21) «

#21, Ahhh, one day we'll all be saying "PCI Express?!? T... : kvndoom (#24) «

#24, I don't know, but "wireless USB" sounds funny to... : indeego (#25) «

#15. Posted at 08:13 AM on Sep 24th 2004

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flip-mode

SWEET. I'm holding off on the purchase of a PVR card until I get a PCIe box running.

#8. Posted at 06:09 AM on Sep 24th 2004

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HiggsBoson

WITH A PARSIMONIOUS 133 megabytes per second of shared bandwidth, PCI has definitely become the short bus of PC expansion standards.

That's so wrong......

#8, To think that some review sites can't even get the differenc... : GodsMadClown (#10) «

#5. Posted at 05:32 AM on Sep 24th 2004

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adisor19

Hmmm.. It sure does look like a nice entry from VIA. Especially with the new southbridge on.

I would love for youg guys to do a comparison between the PCI-e x1 slots hanging from the Northbridge and the ones hanging from the Southbridge. There is got to be some latency associated with that. Of course, all in due time when proper boards will arrive.

Adi

#2. Posted at 05:24 AM on Sep 24th 2004

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Convert

We promise to gang tackle the FedEx guy if we think he might be delivering our Abit AX8—every day until it arrives.

Lol. Yeah I am anxious too. I know it really isn’t a big deal right now since it doesn't help anything but this is the next leap.

Plus I want to see what sli can do. Even though I can’t afford or need it ;)