From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 16:50:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA09179 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 16:50:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from baygate.bayarea.net (baygate.bayarea.net [204.71.212.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA09174 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 16:50:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mcnab@localhost) by baygate.bayarea.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA02671; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 16:44:12 -0700 Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 16:44:12 -0700 From: David McNab Message-Id: <199607032344.QAA02671@baygate.bayarea.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PentiumPro Motherboards Reply-to: David McNab Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been asked to find a good P6 m/b for use in a set of FreeBSD machines we're buying instead of our usual overpriced SGI's. (No thanks, I would rather not pay $8,000 for 128MB of memory...) I've heard from reliable sources that the Intel Aurora (sorry, "Performance/AU") motherboard (sorry, "baseboard") works well with 200Mhz P6 (sorry, "PentiumPro") CPUs and FreeBSD. However, for some strange reason, I would /prefer/ not to buy Intel boards. So I've been looking at the ASUS P/E-P6RP7D board instead. It looks fine, except that the PCI chipset is listed as "Intel 82450GX (Orion)", whereas the Intel documentation on the Aurora board says it uses the "82450 PCISet" chipset, the sub-components of which all seem to end with "KX". Anyone know if the PCI chipset on the ASUS board the same as on the Aurora? Does the magic "GX" make all the difference? Anyone actually own or use one of these ASUS boards? (The main thing I'm concerned about is the PCI-write bug, although if there are other things to watch out for I'd like to hear about them.) BTW, I have found surprisingly little good information on motherboards out on the Web. Are there some good sites I'm missing, or is it just a confusing subject? -- Dave McNab