SiS is changing that with the new SiS630S which offers compelling features that includes an AGP4X slot all for an eye opening price. Read our review to see if this upstart usurps.
Stability is a serious concern for businesses and OEMs considering the adoption of a new chipset.
Gladly, we can report that the SiS630S was a solid performer in this area. Throughout days of rigorous testing, the SiS630S reference platform held up even slightly better that the vaunted ASUS CUSL2 Intel i815e based motherboard. The chipset did display odd performance anomalies as its memory bandwidth would asymptotically diminish after running certain applications. Given that the SiS630S is a new chipset, this problem is minor and likely due to the immaturity of the current BIOS and driver set - a hitch that all chipsets have to suffer through. In a full length movie we noticed only a handful of dropped frames, which were barely noticeable.