Back in the KT266A days, VIA's PCI implementation wasn't very good. The SBLive was also unusually demanding about comformation to the PCI specification and as a result those two would not play nice with each other. VIA has supposedly cleaned up their act but I don't trust them with motherboard chipsets.Vympel wrote:Fuck. How the hell did they manage that? One thing's for certain, I'm never getting another VIA chipset- those games I mentioned above, with the aforementioned exception of KOTOR 2, I simply cannot play. Nor can I play Doom 3, for that matter, forgot about that one. The most annoying thing is my new videocard would be great for all those games.
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Ah, the old 686B southbridge! That brings back some memories. Now, why the hell VIA continued to sell that chipset - KNOWING that it was bad - is beyond me! That bug was the main topic of the Viahardware (now Sudhian.com) forums for well over a year (and the funny thing was, Viahardware was completely independent of VIA themselves, but VIA ignored the problem, leaving the community to figure out work arounds).phongn wrote:Back in the KT266A days, VIA's PCI implementation wasn't very good. The SBLive was also unusually demanding about comformation to the PCI specification and as a result those two would not play nice with each other. VIA has supposedly cleaned up their act but I don't trust them with motherboard chipsets.Vympel wrote:Fuck. How the hell did they manage that? One thing's for certain, I'm never getting another VIA chipset- those games I mentioned above, with the aforementioned exception of KOTOR 2, I simply cannot play. Nor can I play Doom 3, for that matter, forgot about that one. The most annoying thing is my new videocard would be great for all those games.
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In all fairness, VIA's 939-pin AMD chipset is damn solid...but yeah, I have to say that I don't fully trust them even now. Still, could be worse...could be SiS.
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