Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 18:18:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole Harrington <nicole@nmhtech.com> To: Cathy James <cjames@opensite.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Motherboard comparisons Message-ID: <XFMail.990509181821.nicole@nmhtech.com> In-Reply-To: <000401be9889$0c5dadc0$3000000a@cjames.corp.opensite.com>
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On 07-May-99 My Secret Spies Reported That Cathy James wrote:
>
>>I just ordered 3 motherboards for testing with the AMD k-6III 400. I
>>think they were (PO's at work) TYAN, FIC, ASUS. Since it seems a lot
>>of people are curious, I will post my tests when I get done in abt a week.
>
> Did you ever post this, Nicole, or is it still a work in progress?
>
Hmm.. Poke poke...
Well so far it is sort of work in progress.
I found that Tyan does not have a 100Mhz buss ATX socket 7 MB, only AT. No
good.
Asus works great, however with the particulat setup I had I kept getting stuck
at the "waiting 15 secounds for SCSI devices." I had a bunch of LVD drives
hanging off of an adaptec 2940U2W card. I had the same problem with the FIC
board. Thus no tests for either.
Gigabyte MB worked great with a K6/2-400 and the K6/3-400. The K6/3-400 is
worth the price. It is F A S T. I plan on using that with the gigabyte MB for
my servers for a bunch of things. I didn't do any real bench marking as I
didn't have time (and they kicked me out of the lab to put in shelves) but I
found the K6/3-400 visably faster than the K6/2-400.
I still have a Epox MB to test. Epox has in the past been ok, but at times
unstable. Thus I just decided to go with the Gigabyte Board. It has been rock
solid in all my tests.
BTW, my application is for the new FreeBSD port of the Inktomi caching
software. Good stuff! I plan on talking about it at the next BAFUG meeting.
(www.bafug.org)
Hope this helps.
Nicole
> Cathy James
> <cjames@opensite.com>
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