Please help me decide on new mobo - Intel Vs SIS (MuTIOL??!)

[Phoebus]

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

[confus-ed]

SiS MuTIOL 1G is a proprietry method of linking the northbridge into the chipset like ICH 5 is/does ... (northbridge is memory etc, southbridge is pretty much pci bus, but also firewire & usb connections) - pretty much this lets both go at the same speed & you get significant transfer benefits (that just sumed up about a zillion things in one very 'vague' sentence - enough for you ?)

As for which is best ... well don't be believing any benchmarks, as most stuff doesn't benefit from HT yet - So I dunno - confus-ed again