what's wrong with VIA chipsets ?

[LordVader]

time ago, i found an article here in this forum, talking about the problems that suffer DV when transferring with VIA chipsets.

can anyone please help me on this ?

i'm about to buy a firewire card from advantek network with VT6306 chip. but, i don't know if it's a good buy or not.

[budz]

get a ADAPTEC firewire card and you'll have no problems.......i have them in all of my pc's.

[LordVader]

i don't live in the US. it's difficult for me to order from outside.

i only find cards with via chipsets, here in my town.

is there any bad review, using these chips?

i found something related to sync issues.

[MpegEncoder]

All my systems have VIA and I have no problems.

[edDV]

I've got both (Adaptec and Via) and see no difference. Both type are OHCI compliant for XP. Does anybody remember what the problem was?

[winifreid]

Perhaps there have been comments about via firewire cards; I don't recall. But most to f the statements about VIA have been about motherboards. I have had several VIA motherboards and never had any problems that I could attribute to the chipsets.

[canadateck]

Perhaps there have been comments about via firewire cards; I don't recall. But most to f the statements about VIA have been about motherboards. I have had several VIA motherboards and never had any problems that I could attribute to the chipsets.

Same thing here I have heard alot about VIA and Motherboards, not working great with ATI cards, Just what I have heard,I have a VIA chipset and ATI and everything works nice..Rumors....

[bazooka]

I have no problems with my via chipsets.

[Nelson37]

VIA has had a couple of early-release mobo chipsets that some users reported issues with. I have had numerous (half-dozen or more) VIA mobos with no issues, along with many dozens more customer's boards with no problems.

VIA makes a LARGE number of chipsets, typically in the relatively inexpensive category. Take a large number of anything and you will have some bad samples.

Adaptec, for instance, generally makes good quality hardware but I have had some extremely severe problems with some Adaptec products.

In fact, there are very few, if any, PC component manufacturers which have not produced a problematic product at one time or another.

[vocalmind]

All consumer electronic product.

Before its made in the usa then japan then taiwan then china then, I don't know who made them now.

I think its not the technology, its the quality. Thats why there's so called warranty.

So you got mixed response with this type of question.

Do you buy What HI-FI magazine recommend?

[lordsmurf]

I've never been fully happy with VIA. There was always some quirk or problem that just doesn't exist on the better boards.

[LordVader]

the "advantek networks" (afw-03p) is the only card i find everywhere, here in my town.

it has a via vt6306 chip or something like that.

i'm tired of reading topics where people discusse everything about "CAPTURING" and "TRANSFERRING" DV content, and i still can't beleive all the problems that some pleople have been getting with SYNC issues, if supposly you're just copying a file.

if DV is transfer, why some people have problems when the DV file gets bigger and bigger saving it on the computer ?

in one hand, i have articles with sync issues, and in the other hand i have someone recommending a PYRO card for DV transfers.

If it's just a transfer, why so much trouble about cards ?

i don't get it.

sorry about my bad english.

[lordsmurf]

It is ONLY a transfer.
Codecs and other hardware is to blame for problems.

[kupton]

I've never been fully happy with VIA. There was always some quirk or problem that just doesn't exist on the better boards.

I've built many computers with VIA chipsets and I've never found that to be true.

[LordVader]

why some people said :

"i did capture a 60min miniDV tape with no frames drop at all"

what the fu#k is that ?

what is going on ?

i tought we were in the "Digital Age".

[DereX888]

Some problems I found with some VIA chipsts are their drivers' inability to set DMA.
Just few weeks ago I was "fighting" with some stubborn motherboard sporting VIA chipset that had no option of changing dvd writer's PIO mode to DMA using either VIA or Microsoft drivers. Fnally i got rid of win XP on that system, installed win2k and used its generic drivers it comes with - and voila, I could change PIO to DMA with no problem. Of course it means problem lies in the software, not the chipsets itself, but nevertheless - I avoid mobos with VIA chipsets if I can

[Lyris]

I've never been fully happy with VIA. There was always some quirk or problem that just doesn't exist on the better boards.

Same here. On my old VIA system I was always having to download patches and updates for stuff.