LOCATED to present the Top-League of the Set of chip-Manufacturers?
During years the Taiwanese manufacturers of tiddlywinks weren 't able competing with much Intel 'products of tiddlywinks of S in terms of execution as well as success, but recently times changed. Via 'enormous success of S in 2000 gave Ali and LOCATED enough hope to return out of the darkness maintaining too. It is not astonishing that Intel will not threaten its business of central processing unit of treatment by providing chipsets for the processors competiting of Duron and Athlon. Continuous AMD to specify that he does not want to become a manufacturer of tiddlywinks, but a simply certain kind of indicator of technology. Instead of that, AMD wants mainly to show to the manufacturers tiddlywinks which tiddlywinks of Athlon should resemble.
Via was the first company to ensure proactivement of the chipsets for processors of AMD, this fact being one of the sweeping forces to establish the two processors of AMD on the market and themselves as a one of the higher suppliers of tiddlywinks today. Now, more than one year after the moment when Athlon 'successes of S were still dubious, Ali and LOCATED enter the market of AMD-punt-form finally too. The laboratories of Acer jumped the first two generations of Athlon and provides to its MaGiK1 tiddlywinks the support for GDR SDRAM and the recently announced processors of Athlon with 133 megahertz FSB. Via also works with its chipsets of GDR for Athlon (Apollo KT266). The first tiddlywinks of the integrated systems by silicon (LOCATED) are called 730s and can be called a chief of work of integration. A simple piece of BGA (672 balls) accomodates all the functions for which the other companies need at least two pieces. This interesting product is most certainly in value a glance.
Devices of the tiddlywinks of LOCATED 730S
The list of device is indeed completely long. It is particularly interesting because the 730 is composed of only one simple piece of BGA. The LOCATED one decided to remain with memory of SDRAM, which gained 't is any true disadvantage for the next months. Please also read Tom 'evaluation of S of the tiddlywinks of KT133A. The reference marks there prove rather clearly that only the higher speed of FSB provides an increase in execution already. The clocks of bus of processor of 100 and 133 megahertz (this last for new C-Athlons) are supported by SiS730, giving you the option to use all the central processing units of treatment available of Duron and Athlon from 500 to 1200 megahertz and over there.
Controller of host centre
- 1.8 V core with 3.3 V mixed and 5 V CMOS
- Support of clock of bus of processor of 100 or 133 megahertz
- Support of AMD PowerNow!
- Support of synchronous or asynchronous buses of processeur/d' clock of memory
Interface DRACHMA
Port of AGP
Devices of the tiddlywinks of LOCATED 730S, continuous
Interface NCV
Controller of Busmaster ide
Accelerator of graphs 2D/3D integrated
- Interface of memory of 64 bits
- Memory shared of up to 64 mbs
- seal texture 8K
- The devices 3D of the more high importance of supports including/understanding the shade of apartment and gouroud, hesitant, knock the cartography, the correction of prospect, filtering Mipmapping with trilinear texture, MIP-traced texture with transparency, mixing, being wrapped, reflecting and now, embrumant, alpha mixes, spectacular lighting, anti crenellation of full scene.
- Engine of 128 bits 2D (until 1600x1200x24 with 85 hertz)
- Visual devices of acceleration inclucing the acceleration of material DVD
- Pont SiS301 visual optional for the output of TV
Acoustics of NCV
Synthetizer of Wavetable
Management auditor of power
Other devices
Fast Ethernet
Functional diagram
The functional diagrams look at usually enough the more or less even thing. He 's simply interesting to see that all was integrated in a piece.
Also for casing 370: SiS630 and SiS635
The LOCATED one also offers the 630, the tiddlywinks 630S and 630E during a few months now, which includes the same basic devices. The principal difference is their support of the processors of Pentium III and Celeron.
If you want more information on logic of core of LOCATED, please throw a glance in the following page on the Web site of LOCATED:
Systems Corp. - product, logic of Silicon Integrated of core
The LOCATED one also works on tiddlywinks of GDR for systems of Pentium III and Celeron. With a little of chance, we could also see tiddlywinks of Athlon with GDR supporting as well.
Solution or complete platform 3D?
To a certain extent the chipsets of LOCATED are the products of Bohemian. Impressive being integrated, they are much less expensive to produce than solutions of two-piece. Consequently they seem predestinated for the inexpensive solutions of office, because they come with all the components which a commercial computer could have need: The graphs standard 2D/3D functions, a fast interface of ide, noise and even a controller of network - all is included for free. To have all this on the mother chart clearly helps to save the costs for the complete machine.
Astonishing enough by LOCATED decided to include a port of external AGP as well. Thanks to that, you can equip a mother chart SiS730 with a fast graphics card 3D, manufacturing a machine of play from it. I can imagine that many users could be interested by a cheap mother chart with these tiddlywinks instead of expensive buying one Via the solution. In this moment it is clearly more convenient than the gamers to save up to $50 on the mother chart and invest this money in a faster graphics card. The total execution will be usually better outward journey in this way.
By studying the reference marks satisfy take into account which I employed completely a slow processor, Duron 700 megahertz. That 's one of the cheaper models available ones in this moment. Nevertheless this central processing unit of treatment is rather quickly to produce good rates of reinforcement with the plays 3D currents - provided that you employ a good panel of the three-dimensional charts. The applications of Windows function usually rather quickly in any event, so that the software as MS Office can be left out of these considerations.
Gift 't forget that these thoughts are based about the fact that SiS730 is a solution of budget. He 's not tiddlywinks for the systems at end high.
Stability and drivers
I remember that there are a few years much people complained about the exits about reliability and stability of the platforms based above Via, LOCATED, VLSI, UMC and chipsets of Ali. While the VLSI was bought by Philips and UMC does not conceive any more of the chipsets, the others three recently provided the reliable and stable products for a completely certain hour now. I remember mother charts prototype to run so unstable that you had to spend all the night to obtain finished reference marks. The council of the SiS730 reference caused simple hang up again or no other trouble of the whole, which was a pleasant surprise, considering that it is always a panel of prototype. I must however complain about LOCATED the 'support about driver. Naturally they have their own AGP and visual drivers, but I missed a driver of refining of ide, which could have improved the execution of hard drive.
Does Intel have reasons with the threatened feeling?
Sometimes the domestic users do not realize owing to the fact that a great quota of all the sales of computer is employed by companies. Only one third of all the GCV can be found in the houses. If it were your work of order several dozen or even hundreds of computers for your company, you would start to make pointed calculations of the prices of razor.
Up to now there weren 't much of chances to assemble a bottom-of-the-range computer of Duron as cheap as a system based on Intel 's Celeron. The reason is very simple. There wasn 't any inexpensive tiddlywinks with the integrated graphs available. This situation looks at if you want to accumulate INTEL-based �value � - the completely different computer. The decision makers could select Intel 810 or 815 the tiddlywinks, Via 's ProSavage PM133 or Ali Aladdin TNT2. All include at least the functions of graphs.
If you want to build one on inexpensive computer on a processor of Duron, you recently were likely to employ Via 's ProSavage KM133, which also comes with the integrated graphs. Unfortunately, ProSavage KM133 only became available recently, and before the purchasers usually permuted with a solution INTEL-based.
SiS730 seems to be the perfect inexpensive solution. Our tests were very painless, proving enough well that the tiddlywinks seem to be matured. There are many reasons for which I would prefer certainly a system of Duron to a system of Celeron. The processor always could offer a much better report/ratio of price/performance. Celeron is limited to the clock of bus of processor of 66 megahertz (to 800 megahertz him 's 100 megahertz finally), whereas Duron functions to 100 megahertz double-pumped. Finally Duron can be associated with memory with PC100 or PC133 SDRAM, whereas the systems of Celeron usually function with memory of 66 megahertz. Moreover, there is from now on no difference of the prices between 66 megahertz and 133 memory of megahertz SDRAM. The question about the speed of memory is very important forchipsets with the integrated graphs, because the execution of graphs depends largely on the bandwidth of data between the core of graphs and of main memory, which is partly used as memory of graphs.
Testing facility
| Material |
| Central processing unit of treatment | AMD Duron 700 megahertz |
| RAM | 1x 128 Moctet SDRAM (corsair)
PC133, 7ns, CL2 |
| Hard drive | IBM DeskStar 75GXP,
DTLA307030, 30 GIGAOCTETS
7200 t/mn |
| Graphics card | nVIDIA GeForce 2 pro
Memory of 64 mbs GDR, 5 NS |
| Drivers and software |
| Drivers of HDD/Motherboard/AGP | Via 4.26 complete
VIA AGP 4.04
LOCATED AGP 1.02 |
| Graphics card | Drivers 6.47 of reference of NVIDIA
Drivers 5.12.01.102 0 of graphs of LOCATED |
| Version of DirectX | 8.0 |
| Operating system | Of Windows 98, 4.10.2222 has
Windows 2000 pro, 5.10.2195
SP1 |
| Reference mark and arrangements |
| Arena of tremor III | Version with the detail
line of order = s_initsound 0 of the cd_nocd 1 +set of +set
The graphs detail overall �normal �, 640x480x16
Using of reference mark �Q3DEMO1 � |
| MDK2 | Downloadable version of demonstration
line of order = - timedemo
640x480x16 |
| Sysmark 2000 | Correction 4B
1024x768x16 |
| ViewPerf | Version 4.1.2
1280x1024x16, 75 hertz |
| Refresh rate | 85Hz |
Reference mark
Locate bandwidth of memory
I had the practice SiSoft Sandra 6.0 to obtain some information of execution on the interface of memory. Everyone will agree with me that come does not seem to be a good interpreter. Control left 'of S the real-world evaluates now to see how this affects the daily software 'of S.
BAPCo SYSmark 2000
In my opinion BAPCo 's SYSmark is always the best continuation of evaluation to determine the total execution of businesses. However, the real numbers are rather theoretical, because even a machine of 300 megahertz can provide execution enough to treat documents, diffusion covers or similar substance. The Green line is the result of reference mark using the integrated engine of graphs of SiS730. Blue represents the result using a pro graphics card of GeForce 2. As envisaged, the advantage of a so expensive graphics card above the integrated engine is not interesting the mention.
BAPCo SYSmark 2000 - Windows 98
Because you could see in the front diagram, the new handset of SiS730 chips cannot beat Via 's KT133. That also applies to the new handset of chips of KT133A, because it has to only be updated to support 133 megahertz FSB (model Athlon C). Tiddlywinks of LOCATED 'of S 730 support already this bus of processor by defect.
The delta of execution between the LOCATED one and Via the tiddlywinks is between 3 and 12% out of Windows 98, according to the application. The intensive applications of memory like Bryce, elastic reality (modelling and returning 3D), the first (video publishing) or the paradox (data base software) suffer clearly from the bandwidth of LOCATED low SDRAM. However, you gained 't can obtain these points using a system of Celeron 700.
BAPCo SYSmark 2000 - Windows 2000
The situation is completely the same one in Windows 2000. Just the result of point of power is considerable higher using has Via the mother chart KT133. You can also see that both chipsets are almost on the par in Photoshop 5.5, aspiration 9 of Corel, first 5.1 and word 2000.
Demonstration MDK2
MDK2 is a gunner of action of Direct3D-based. We employed the version of demonstration for the evaluation: As you can see, the engine of graphs integrated of the tiddlywinks of LOCATED is not exactly a large interpreter. By employing the graphics card of GeForce 2, there is very small difference between SiS730S and Via 's Apollo KT133.
Packing of truck of benz of Mercedes
The truck packing the demonstration offers the very good quality of image if you light all the possible devices 3D. However, that would have made the play and the reference mark unplayable on the engine of graphs of LOCATED, which 's why I carried out these tests with arrangements of defect. Even with 640x480, this play is not recreation exploiting our configuration of system of reference mark. 22 images a second are not sufficient for the play of play. After connection in the pro chart of GeForce 2, you can easily play MBTR with until 1280x1024 on the LOCATED one and Via the system. With 1024x768 and 1280x1024, this play functions even more quickly on the platform of LOCATED! As soon as you increase the resolution, you can see how the bandwidth of lower memory of SiS730 has gradually more impact on the rate of reinforcement.
Arena of tremor III
Tremor III is absolutely unplayable with the engine of graphs of LOCATED. Even with 640x480, the system could not even mark 20 fps. Still, using the nVIDIA fast GeForce 2 pro thorough of council to the top of the rate of reinforcement 5-10 times. Via 's KT133 is approximately 10% faster than SiS730.
SPECviewperf 6.1.2
The differences in execution between the LOCATED one and Via the tiddlywinks are much larger using the high reference mark at end SPECviewperf d' OpenGL. It can also be employed like test for the stability of system, because it will most probably break if a component of system surely does not function.
The design engineering (DRV-07) more quickly runs approximately 35% on Via the council than on SiS730 - a clear homage to the better execution of memory of tiddlywinks KT133. All other applications function certainly more quickly on panel KT133 as well. If you envisage to launch such programs at end raised, you should spend the higher price of has Via the mother chart oftiddlywinks KT133.
Conclusion
The revision of the mother charts of prototype formerly was completely a piece of work. Not this one. No hang rises, aucunes resulting from driver. All was right as with an entirely matured product. I guess that the LOCATED one spend much time to optimize and refine the tiddlywinks, because there was not apparently no need to precipitate it at the market as quickly.
Is the result with the Juste of what the mediums of the businesses had need: Relatively fast, reliable and well-comprised tiddlywinks. No other manufacturer offers a product with the same range of device as the family SiS630 and SiS730.
Though the engineers of LOCATED count on the drivers of the defect ide of Windows, I 'm sour which specialized those can improve the total execution even more. There could also be a certain part to optimize the execution of memory as well. If you think of the comparisons of tiddlywinks of the whole the decade spent, the LOCATED one could be in a good situation. This time there is not any tiddlywinks competiting of Intel to exceed the product of LOCATED.
Segment finally the bottom of value/budget has now two chipsets different from Athlon/Duron to select, Via 's ProSavage KM133 and SiS730. I expect that the LOCATED one cheaper although better is described. With these two chipsets available, the sector of calculation of businesses is not any more according to chipsets or processors of Intel. There is much more behind him. The value of a commercial computer is increased by a processor of AMD Duron. You obtain a faster treatment unit, a faster memory and better tiddlywinks describe for the same price - isn 't which much?
The sector of house and execution-computer of office was the first of three sectors to enter by AMD, now AMD has good lucks write the segment of value. This freely leaves always only one part of the processors of AMD: Systems of work stations and waiter. That will change once AMD obtains the tiddlywinks of AMD760-MP ready to go.
