Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 16:45:26 +0100 (MET) From: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Which PPro board? Message-ID: <m0vlcxS-00065AC@robkaos.ruhr.de>
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In the next few weeks I will buy a new motherboard. At the moment I have a 486DX50 which is somewhat slow. Because I probably will do lots of number crunching I think that an PPro-200 is the right choice. Another reason is good 'worldstone' bench :-) But what motherboard should I buy? Asus? Tyan? Does anyone know something about Chaintech? Is it correct that on non-ASUS boards I need a SCSI host adapter with BIOS if I want to boot from the SCSI drive? I ask this because the HA of my choice is some kind of NCR adapter. and most of these beasts you can buy in a usual PC shop are without BIOS. Is there anything special to note concerning the CPU? It may be that I will use the CPU in a Dual-PPro board later. Are there CPUs which are not able to smp? The CPU is a PPro 200 (256k). TIA Robert
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