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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:38:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Penisoara Adrian <ady@warpnet.ro>
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Subject: Re: Opinion on ATC5000 motherboard ?
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On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Penisoara Adrian wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   I'm going to buy one of there (cheapo) ATC 5000 motherboards (or the
> newer versions like 5020 or 5050); does anyone know them to behave good or
> did anybody have any troubles with them ?
>   And about that, what would it be you choice for a good & cheap
> motherboard in this category:
>    * Socket 7 (supporting the whole range of "586" generation processors,
>      e.g. Pentium 90-233Mhz (MMX), Cyrix, IBM-6x86, AMD K5 & K6, etc.)
>    * More PCI buses than ISA
>    * DIMM sockets (at least 2)
>    * USB, PS/2 mouse
>    * Preferably no ATX & SCSI onboard (due to bigger costs)

www.tomshardware.com is a good starting point for stuff like this.
Socket7 boards are quite cheap (in comparison to P6/PII multiprocessor
boards :) ) and some are really really good.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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