List of bad motherboard chipsets for hauppauge 150/500

[JUC]

I know the hauppauge link lists SIS chipsets as having issues too. Has anyone on this board had problems with the SIS chipsets as opposed to VIA?
Thanks
JUC

[dbfresh23]

Originally Posted by JUC

I know the hauppauge link lists SIS chipsets as having issues too. Has anyone on this board had problems with the SIS chipsets as opposed to VIA?

SIS chipsets are just as good as ECS motherboards...

[JUC]

Originally Posted by dbfresh23

SIS chipsets are just as good as ECS motherboards...

well, that doesn't bode well for my new cheapo motherboard with SIS chipset I just orderred. Its really hard finding a non-via board that supports socket A. Everything is VIA. The few nforce's i found didn't have the features i was looking for. So, back to my original question--has anyone had any problems with SIS chipsets? All the posts on this board reference Via--but any conflicts with SIS? I'm only putting in a PVR 150 and a Roslyn for PCI cards...
Thanks
JUC

[stanger89]

What features are missing on nForce boards?

[AboveUnrefined]

Why don't we just condense this bad chipset list into "Use Intel or nVidia chipsets because the small guys can't get it right at the moment" -- I've always had bad times with VIA/SIS chipsets because they always had bugs that were very annoying. Over the years I learned cheaper is most definately not better and fortunately today the better is only a couple bucks more -- digressing, I wonder how the nForce chipsets are working on the Intel platform for these things.

[src666]

The sad part of this is that VIA used to be _THE_ enthusiasts chipset, because they offered more performance and configurability than anyone else. They had a reputation for being utterly tweakable while maintaining stability. This old reputation is why so many people have trouble believing how bad the situation has gotten.

Personally, I used to use VIA motherboards all the time, and life was great right up to the Socket7 generation. That's when the PCI issues started creeping in. It took me 3 VIA motherboards, from different manufacturers, with different generations of chipset, before I finally abandoned them. Now, I'm strictly NForce. This isn't to say that NVidia is perfect, but I've never had any insurmountable problems from their product.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by src666

The sad part of this is that VIA used to be _THE_ enthusiasts chipset, because they offered more performance and configurability than anyone else. They had a reputation for being utterly tweakable while maintaining stability. This old reputation is why so many people have trouble believing how bad the situation has gotten.

They still do to a degree, but they've had the same PCI problems for as long as I can remember (anybody remember the SB Live poping and HDD corruption issues?).

[dbfresh23]

Anyone here tried one of the ATI Crossfire chipset based boards with PVR stuff?

[hufnagel]

Sorry for the dead thread revival but...

Has anyone explicitly tried the EPoX 8k9A series of boards with the PVR-500? Yes they have the VIA KT400 chipset onboard, so I'd expect people to say it won't work but I need to ask as it's been my PVR motherboard for over 2 years now and has been flawless with 1GB of ram and 3 PVR-250 v16 boards installed (along with an lowly Voodoo3 AGP video board I had lying around) and a PCI slot 3com NIC. I have 1 slot left and was thinking of grabbing a PVR-500 for it, giving me 2 more encoder channels (which we seem to need when the fall TV season starts to come into play.)

Thanks.