Please help me decide on new mobo - Intel Vs SIS (MuTIOL??!)
Any suggestions, thoughts, comments, etc on the following 2 motherboards? I need to buy a new one and I'm between those two basically.
1. Gigabyte GA-8S648FX-L
http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/...-8S648FX-L.htm
2. Gigabyte GA-8I848P-L
http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/...A-8I848P-L.htm
K, in a nutshell. They both support Hyper Threading with a 800Mhz FSB (which is what I'm mostly interested in).
About 1:
SiS 648FX chipset. This chipset comes with SiS MuTIOL 1G® Technology which I'm not very familiar with. Does it really work, do you think there is a noticeable performance gain?
It also takes a maximum of 3Gb of RAM.
Has ATA 133 support (which is what hard drives I have).
Supports Intel Prescott up to 2.8Ghz.
About 2:
Intel 848P chipset.
Supports up to 2Gb RAM.
Has ATA 100 support but also Serial ATA (don't think I'll be getting one of those any time soon).
PCI 2.3 compliant.
Supports all Intel Prescott CPUs.
Thanks for all your help. I'm mostly interested in finding out more about that SiS MuTIOL 1G® Technology. Is it really worth it?
Phoebus