2.2GHz Northwood at 3GHz

[n18mets]

After the Northwood is released, which core will follow, when, and what is its expected debut clock?

 

[AGodspeed]

The SiS645 is nice but the i850 is still the best chipset for P4's.

Not really.

 

[Sid03]

but are benchmarks all any one pays attention to? in another article by anandtech he writes: "Although the P4X266A and SiS 645 chipsets are both faster than the i845 with DDR SDRAM, neither chipset has such a stable following of platforms as the i845."

i assume the quality of the i850 is just as good as teh i845.

 

[christoph83]

but are benchmarks all any one pays attention to? in another article by anandtech he writes: "Although the P4X266A and SiS 645 chipsets are both faster than the i845 with DDR SDRAM, neither chipset has such a stable following of platforms as the i845."

Yeah and its not like RDRAM is exspensive anymore.
Asus P4S333 ~ 120
2 x 256 PC2700 (non generic, If you want good quality stuff it will cost 100+ dollars a stick) ~ 160 = 280 dollars total
or
Asus P4T-E ~ 155
2x256 RDRAM(Samsung) ~ 150 = 305 dollars total

25 dollars more for one of the most stable chipsets plus its sopposed to overclock better than the sis 645.

 

[Diable]

AGodspeed, in Anand's review you linked to he used a engineering sample from SiS which no one can buy. Here's a list of all reviews of shipping SiS645 motherboards I could find:

Asus P4333 at GamePC
MSI 645Ultra at OC Workbench
ECS P4S5A at OC Workbench

If you look at all benchmarks you'll notice that none of the boards using the SiS645 chipset out perform the i850 boards there compare to like the engineering board SiS supplied to Anand, so the numbers Anand got are not indicative of what anyone will get if they buy one of the 3 available SiS645 motherboards. A SiS645 motherboard will perform about as good as a i850 motherboard but with PC800 RDRAM currently cheaper then PC2700 DDRAM and with the stabily of i850 will known IMHO there doesn't seem to be any reason to buy a SiS645 motherboard.