From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Mar 18 09:06:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA06317 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:06:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA06310 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:06:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA20110; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:05:57 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199603181705.JAA20110@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Intel Apache Motherboard???? To: dwalton@psiint.com (Dave Walton) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:05:57 -0800 (PST) Cc: fcawth@jjarray.umd.edu, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Dave Walton" at Mar 18, 96 07:55:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > What is the Pentium Pro board of choice now? > > > > NONE! The Orion chip set is seriously flawed in several design aspects, > > and even the B0 stepping will not fix these flaws. Until the second > > generation P6 chip sets come out of Intel my advice on Pentium Pro is > > simply _don't_ do it. > > On a related note, what is the Pentium board of choice now? I am currently using either the ASUS PCI/I-P55TP4XEG or the PCI/I-P55TP4N for production runs. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD