Intel vs. AMD? ATI vs. nVidia?

[Prof.Wizard]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1034813395
Just to make your life more complex:
KT400A

 

[James]

In the interests of adventure I've decided to try Intel on a SiS chipset. I have a house full of Athlons on various platforms - several VIA and one SiS - and I'd like to expand my repetoire a little.

 

[Tea]

So. What's wrong with a VIA Cyrix III?

 

[James]

Dunno. I've been tempted to try one out in fact for a super quiet setup.

 

[flagreen]

FWIW the new 533mhz fsb single cpu P4 boards from Asus now support hyper-threading. GF4 is the way to go for a graphics adapter.

 

[James]

Bill,

Thanks. I can live without hyperthreading I think, although it is a neat technology. I'm buying a GF4 Ti4200, it'll be a big upgrade (well, at least in benchmarks!) from my GF2 GTS.

 

[Jake the Dog]

good move James. have you thought about which GF4 you're going to buy? i'd recommend either a Leadtek, Triplex or Gainward card. the Leadtek is probably the best constructed (and bundled) of the three but all are good stable cards and overclock very well, especially the 64MB ones.

 

[blakerwry]

I've had an excellent experience from my leadtek geforce 3.

The only thing I dont like about it is the custom bootup screen... little too flashy for me... plus I really dont need to see the gfx board count the memory..lol... a simple white text on black background saying I have a geforce3 is sufficient.

I tried to flash the firmware for the card but failed... I got CRC errors when trying to flash my custom firmware onto the card.