From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun May 9 18:18:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from xwin.nmhtech.com (xwin.nmhtech.com [208.138.46.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF6E154E2 for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 18:18:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicole@xwin.nmhtech.com) Received: by xwin.nmhtech.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C18C72EE1A; Sun, 9 May 1999 18:18:21 -0700 (PDT) Content-Length: 2192 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000401be9889$0c5dadc0$3000000a@cjames.corp.opensite.com> Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 18:18:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole Harrington To: Cathy James , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Motherboard comparisons Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 07-May-99 My Secret Spies Reported That Cathy James wrote: >=20 >>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= . >=20 > Did you ever post this, Nicole, or is it still a work in progress? >=20 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.=20 Asus works great, however with the particulat setup I had I kept getting s= tuck 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 ro= ck 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 > |\ __ /| (`\ =20 | o_o |__ ) ) =20 // \\ =20 nicole@nmhtech.com | http://www.webweaver.net/ webmistress@dangermouse.org | http://www.dangermouse.org -------------------------(((---(((----------------------- =20 - Powered by Coka Cola and FreeBSD - - Strong enough for a man - But made for a Woman - =20 - I'm not ADD - I'm just Multithreaded - - Microsoft: What bug would you like today? - ---------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message