By Anonymous CowardPosted Monday 11th August 2008 15:25 GMT
Can I have the week-or-so of my life back that I've spent trying to get your shitty motherboard chipsets to work with numerous graphics cards / soundcards / OS's / and, once, even a USB adapter card using YOUR OWN FUCKING USB CHIPSET.
Good riddance. Don't let the door hit you on the arse on the way out.
By Anonymous CowardPosted Monday 11th August 2008 15:31 GMT
At least Via can concentrate on their ultra-mini-tiny computer business. Mobile ITX should be a revolution- an x86 PC of a size you could comfortably fit in your wallet. If they're available at a decent price point (a couple of hundred quid) I can see them really taking off- I for one can think of a load of different places I could use them!
It's the one with the 10-machine server farm and battery pack built into its lining.
There's a Via chipset on the Abit KT7 RAID mobo in my garage. It was my main PC for a while even had my 1Ghz TBird doing 1.4+Ghz on it. It has been running 24/7 with the occasional reboot for about 5 years now although at 1.1Ghz. It is used as a media/file server. When competition thins in any area it is a sad thing.
By CharlesPosted Monday 11th August 2008 18:21 GMT
Not necessarily. As long as there is SOME competition, the situation is far from unbearable. In fact, some may welcome it since it helps narrow options while still keeping the competitive spirit going. The performance graphics market has been a two-horse race for years (only recently has Intel declared intentions to enter it) with barely a complaint.
By Tammer SalemPosted Monday 11th August 2008 18:28 GMT
Wow, i'm going to miss these guys. Yeah their chipsets weren't the most stable, but once you got them running, most of their components would chug along for years. Also you can't argue they were probably the best bang for buck.
(I wonder if i'm going to lose driver support on my via motherboard, sound card, and graphics card i've been running for 5 years now)
Tux? Becuase I've built many low cost systems linux systems with this chipset
By Olly SimmonsPosted Monday 11th August 2008 19:41 GMT
One week?!?!?!? You lucky sod, I lost that on my first VIA mobo, and I had at least three others that were worse. Alas the things you do when the wallet is light.
By Graham LockleyPosted Monday 11th August 2008 22:23 GMT
Still running a KT7A here as rip/encode/burn machine and its as stable as hell. Still have one or two bad memories of AMD K62's on VIA chipsets tho....
By Hayden ClarkPosted Monday 11th August 2008 23:40 GMT
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! If you installed the Via driver (on Win95, this was when Win98 was too new) the IDE driver couldn't cope with simultaneous transfers to multiple devices. Like when you install software from an IDE CD-ROM to your IDE hard drive. VC5 installer fortunately checksummed the installed files, and spotted it for me.
Oh, and the PCI bus was set up wrong, so simultaneously drawing to the screen and playing audio didn't work.
I restarted my machine so many times the CD-ROM drive died.
The PCI timing bug continued until quite recently.
By Anonymous CowardPosted Tuesday 12th August 2008 03:23 GMT
Perhaps this is a good thing. So far, Via's own chips and chipsets seem to not have been given the proper attention. I personally won't touch Via based boards with a barge pole, they're nothing but trouble, both with Windows and Linux.
If this means Via is now going to put 100% effort into their own stuff, their mobos might actually suck less, which would be a good thing, cause real competition is always a good thing.
Perhaps Via will learn a lesson from AMD. The Geode LX800 chipset rocks and consumes less energy, no driver problems. Windows, Linux, BSD or VxWorks, they always work like a charm.
nVidia are happy to soldier on with their motherboard products cause they're planning to move into the CPU market, then they'll be in the same chipset providing position as AMD and Intel
Comments on: VIA heralds end of third-party PC chipset biz
VIA, before you go... #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 11th August 2008 15:25 GMT
Well #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 11th August 2008 15:31 GMT
Soldiering on? #
By bobbles31 Posted Monday 11th August 2008 15:35 GMT
"leverage" -> "use" #
By Nano nano Posted Monday 11th August 2008 15:56 GMT
KT7 Raid #
By adnim Posted Monday 11th August 2008 16:24 GMT
Re: KT7 Raid #
By Charles Posted Monday 11th August 2008 18:21 GMT
Like losing a friend #
By Tammer Salem Posted Monday 11th August 2008 18:28 GMT
Re: VIA, before you go... #
By Olly Simmons Posted Monday 11th August 2008 19:41 GMT
Consolidation of the market #
By Thomas Posted Monday 11th August 2008 19:46 GMT
But... #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 11th August 2008 21:26 GMT
Still Running #
By Graham Lockley Posted Monday 11th August 2008 22:23 GMT
was it the drivers or windows? #
By Bo Pedersen Posted Monday 11th August 2008 22:27 GMT
Dont worry about Intel's SLI #
By Alan W. Rateliff, II Posted Monday 11th August 2008 23:09 GMT
MVP3 anyone? #
By Hayden Clark Posted Monday 11th August 2008 23:40 GMT
Yay ! #
By vincent himpe Posted Tuesday 12th August 2008 02:59 GMT
Via sucks anyway #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 12th August 2008 03:23 GMT
Cheerio #
By Luke McCarthy Posted Tuesday 12th August 2008 08:12 GMT
tinfoil hat #
By Mark Posted Tuesday 12th August 2008 11:13 GMT