Tomshardware published the first part of what will be a comparison of 10 boards based on Intel’s i875 chipset. Competitors for this first round are ASUS, ABIT, Gigabyte, Intel, MSI. As you all know, Intel’s i875 brings dual channel DDR400 to the Pentium, including memory optimalisation PAT.
But it appears that it’s not all that beautifull;
“Even as we speak, boards with the Intel i875P chipset for dual DDR400 and FSB800 are perched on store shelves. The new chipsets have no trouble outstripping the Rambus platform with PC1066 or PC1200 RAM. But our other conclusion in Part I of this comparative test is to wait and see – at least until the (BIOS) problems with the aggressive RAM timings have been resolved.The RAM modules themselves pose no problems: dual DDR400, for instance, runs perfectly in conjunction with the Nvidia NForce 2 chipset and Socket 462 (AMD platform). “
Read the full article here.
