Recensione Asus CUSL2

There is no doubt that Intel is making excellent CPUs. Some doubts, however, have surfaced lately about the validity of Intel’s claims to fame with their chipsets. After all the hypes that the BX chipset is finally at the edge of obsolescence because of the lack of AGP x 4 support as well as the inability to offer the ½ AGP bus divider and some other smaller issues, Intel has gone through reiteration after reiteration of their i8x0 chipsets, only to leave a stale taste behind.

To be true, none of the solutions offered by Intel were really bad. The i810 chipset, particularly in the i810E revision offered a low-cost integrated solution for a secondary PC at an excellent price performance ratio, and the i820 (Camino) isn’t too shabby either. Either chipset, if released one year earlier, would have blasted the competition, alas, the same argument was made for the AMD K6. Once again, this tells us that in today’s market time is virtually the most important issue and Intel is no exception. Regarding the i810 chipset, the main problems were the inadequate graphics capabilities and the lack of support for PC133 memory. The i820E was handicapped by the need for the overpriced Rambus memory which, at the same time, did not meet the expectations in its performance.