Bigeye #6: SiS 5598 Chipset Graphics

Created on May 24, 2020
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Of course, there were many other Socket 7 chipsets coming from different manufacturers. Some of them are known to have various quirks and may not be as reliable as Intel chipsets, but the most noteworthy ones might be those with video adapters integrated into the chipset.

SiS is particularly known for providing chipset graphics well before Intel tried it themselves. This is not to be confused with a dedicated video chipset soldered onto the motherboard such as the S3 Trio64 or ATI Rage; here, graphics output is handled by the same chipset as everything else.

The chipset uses part of your system RAM as video memory, so to achieve the maximum possible color depth and/or resolution, all you have to do is go into the setup utility and change the shared memory value to 4MB. No need to fetch obscure parts like those 60ns SOJ chips that might be broken.

Unlike with Intel boards having north and south bridges, everything is consolidated into a single chip that is the SiS 5598, greatly reducing manufacturing costs.

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No one's responded to flaterute's (I mean flatrute's!) question... so I decided to answer it myself:

If you buy the Ryzen 7000 series, please note that only the upcoming 7950X3D cpu would be designed for gaming, and simply none of the other 7000 cpus have that. Pretty much any intel Raptor Lake cpu with a name not ending with the letter F (such as 13900K) can have integrated graphics regardless whether one would use it for gaming or not. I doubt there could be an "X3D" version of an Intel cpu.

I like how the video descriptions of these Bigeye videos love going into detail about hardware (SiS integrated graphics 5598 included definitely), it's technical and clear-to-understand.

since forever*

Of course I would forget typing words.

As a person using computers with only integrated graphics since and will continue doing so this video's description is interesting. I know AMD has become evil again but I still want to get hold of their Ryzen 7000 series or later in the future due to inclusion of GPU in all lineups (they do not call those whole packages "APU" for some reasons).

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I do not have any better comments. Sorry.

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