Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 00:20:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole Harrington <nicole@nmhtech.com> To: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@goldsword.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, cjames@opensite.com Subject: RE: Motherboard comparisons Message-ID: <XFMail.990510002011.nicole@nmhtech.com> In-Reply-To: <199905100547.BAA07697@rapier.goldsword.com>
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On 10-May-99 My Secret Spies Reported That John T. Farmer wrote: > > On Sun, 09 May 1999 18:18:21 Nicole Harrington said: >> 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. > > Buzz! Not True! Tyan makes the S1590S Trinity 100 AT with the VIA Apollo > MVP3 AGPset chipset. This board is solid and _very_ stable. It also > supports parity & ECC memory operations at the 100Mhz level (see comment > about the ASUS below). <http://www.tyan.com/products/html/s1590s.html>; > This is _the_board_ to use (IMHO) for low cost, high performance servers > (I've used it in both FreeBSD and Netware5 systems without a probem.) > > It will also work with either AT or ATX style power supplies (for extra > control/monitoring...) > The pure ATX version is the S1592S Trinity ATX. Look at: > <http://www.tyan.com/products/html/s1592s.html>; > That may be, however as stated. It is an AT board, not what I needed. The board you have listed above does not handle 100MHZ Bus speeds. Thus K6-400 is not an option on it :<. I know I made the same mistake. Luckely my supplier makes exchanges. <SNIP> >> 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) >> > > Tell us more!!! > Well, since you can't come to the meeting, please check the bafug website ater the meeting for more info. Also please feel free to visit www.inktomi.com. Nicole > John > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > John T. Farmer Owner & CTO GoldSword Systems > jfarmer@goldsword.com 423-691-6498 Knoxville TN > Internet Services & Servers, Network Design, Consulting > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message |\ __ /| (`\ | o_o |__ ) ) // \\ nicole@nmhtech.com | http://www.webweaver.net/ webmistress@dangermouse.org | http://www.dangermouse.org -------------------------(((---(((----------------------- - Powered by Coka Cola and FreeBSD - - Strong enough for a man - But made for a Woman - - 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
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