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:
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>>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=
.
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> Did you ever post this, Nicole, or is it still a work in progress?
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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
> <cjames@opensite.com>
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