SiS648 and SiS651 - Based Mainboards at Computex

by Ilya Gavrichenkov
06/04/2002 | 03:21 PM

A lot of mainboards based on SiS648 and SiS651 are widely presented at the Computex 2002 show. These are new SiS chipsets for Pentium 4 processors.

SiS648:

• SOYO P4S-648 Dragon Ultra (photo);
• MSI 648Max-BL (photo);
• AZZA 648-ALB (photo);
• ASUS P4S8X (photo);
• Shuttle AS45GT/R (photo);
• GIGABYTE GA-8SG (photo);
• DFI NS80 (photo).

SiS651

• CHAINTECH 9SIL6 (photo);
• MSI MS-6533EG-ILM (photo);
• ASUS P4S533-VM (photo);
• GIGABYTE GA-8SIMLH (photo);
• FIC VI39 (photo).

I would like to remind that SiS648 is the successor of the SiS645/SiS645DX chipsets and its difference is in the support of DDR400 memory, AGP 8x and a new SiS963 South Bridge (ATA-133, USB 2.0, IEEE1394, ADSL, a faster MuTIOL bus for the connection with the North Bridge). This chipset should be released during the third quarter of this year. Concerning SiS651, it is simply a new version of the integrated SiS650 (graphics core – SiS315) with the support of DDR333/PC2700 memory, the serial production of which has already started.

(Photos by PCWatch, Japan)