Intel i815 moederborden vergelijking @ THG

pe1rbt meldt dat bij Tom's Hardware Guide een vergelijking te vinden is tussen 5 plankjes uitgerust met de i815 chipset. De MSI MS-6337 plank kwam als beste uit de bus: de layout, features en performance combinatie bleek beter te zijn dan bij de concurrentie:

Along with the Fujitsu-Siemens D1184, the MSI MS-6337 is clearly one of the top candidates. The board comes in a colorful and functional package. Because of the ICH2 chip the board is capable of addressing both IDE channels with Ultra-DMA/100. It offers very flexible settings for Front Side Bus and memory clock: It allows clock rates up to 153 MHz adjustable in small steps. Increasing the core voltage is an important overclocking feature to ensure stable operation of a processor near the limit. The system diagnosis consisting of four multi-color LEDs is helpful for finding hardware errors. We did not encounter any problems during the test, and the MSI MS-6337 ran very stable.

[...] The MSI MS-6337 showed the most balanced features among the boards tested: The board based on the Solano 2 chipset delivers a very good performance in connection with high system stability. In addition, it offers numerous features for overclocking that are especially interesting for users who like to tweak the performance.[break]Ondanks het feit dat Intel 2 jaar de tijd heeft gehad om een chipset te ontwerpen is de i815 niet sneller geworden dan de BX chipset. In bijna alle testen is de Asus P3B-F @ 133MHz het snelste en bewijst daarmee weer dat een BX plankje op 133MHz nog steeds de basis is voor de ultieme performance :[/break]The benchmark results display it quite clearly: Only in two OpenGL disciplines is the Intel 815 chipset faster than the older 440BX. In all other test categories its predecessor delivers a marginally better performance. Generally, it is not easy to argue for the Intel 815(E): In a direct comparison with its predecessor 440BX, the new chipset offers all the modern features (AGP 4x, 133 MHz Front Side Bus, Ultra-DMA/66/100, etc.), but does not deliver any visible advantage considering the most important criterion, performance.