VIA PT894 & PT880 Pro Chipset Preview
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The Content Creation 2004 scores clearly favor Intel's 925XE, followed by the 915G chipset. VIA's PT894 finishes the metric, but a measurable distance behind the competing platforms. Our VIA PT880 Pro reference board wouldn't even complete the test, freezing at the same point on each run.
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All four motherboards get through Business Winstone without an issue and again, Intel's 925XE takes a first-place finish. The more modest 915G comes in second place, and the PT880 Pro, purportedly VIA's value offering, claims a third-place finish. The PT894, curiously enough, lags behind the pack, perhaps due to such disappointing memory bandwidth scores.
