GGSData got the A1XE mobos today!!! (Datakompaniet to have them early next week!!!)

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filson wrote:

BTW: anyone know why VIA was chosen for the southbridge? VIA doesn't have the best reputation for good PCI/IDE I/O. And they aren't the cheapest ones either.

The VIA south bridge is actually a really good peice of kit, it's well tested/proven, has lots of features, it's well documented and it's very cheap.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that one sits on a PCI bus and not some strange custom bus, which makes it easy to include in a non standard project like the A1

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filson wrote:
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I'm not going to rant on you, bloodline, since you were so nice to wake me up from the amiga time machine thread  :-D
but it is a known fact that VIAs southbridges contain "undocumented" features that some PC mobo makers like Abit use, that create a slight speed increase but will cause data corruption on the IDE channels if used in combo with e.g Soundblaster Audigy/Live.

After waisting more than 150 hours on debugging this problem I don't buy VIA any more.

And some basic pci transfer testing will show that Intel delivers the closest to the pci max, 110MB/s, then SiS, ALi and last VIA at 67MB/s

I have all the faith that the new Amigas are going to be a blast and that Ainc. wont make any stupid stunts so this probably wont be an issue anyhow.

Oh yes, I fully agree with you on what you said, but I've found the VIA chips to be very good little chips (and very cheap). I'm currently wading through pages and pages of Technical documentation for the VIA Mini-ITX, as I'm keen to make AROS use the south bridges buit in sound.  :-o