by LoneWolf on Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:42 pm
dodecahedron wrote:new question.
a motherboard for Pentium 4 with integrated graphics.
which integrated-graphics chipset is best?
SIS, VIA, ATI?
are there significant differences between them at all?
is there a Pentium 4 chipset (with integrated graphics) from Nvidia?
Just curious: Why not buy a very inexpensive video card (i.e., Radeon 7000)? Even if you aren't doing a whole lot of graphics work, system performance overall will improve.
Of course, you could be doing a 1U rack configuration, in which case integrated video would make sense. I'd go with the Intel solution, from a stability perspective. VIA's graphics are generally derived from S3, whose drivers I have little trust for, and SiS has reasonable chipsets but poor USB performance.
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