From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 6 10:11:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA00626 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 10:11:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA00621; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 10:11:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA00443; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 10:09:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608061709.KAA00443@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" cc: netbsd-current@netbsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: P6 Natoma chipset In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Aug 1996 09:28:50 PDT." <199608061628.JAA19281@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 10:09:07 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk You may find the following interesting: http://www.u-net.com/~sysdoc/hardware.htm >From The Desk Of "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" : > > I'm going to be buying a 200MHz Pentium Pro and motherboard (probably > a dual-CPU) in the next week or two. I know the Orion chipset has > some nasty bugs (like the 4MB/s PCI bus speed). > > Has anyone discovered any horrible bugs in the Natoma (440FX) chipset, > or is it working well so far? > > I also remember reading something about someone having quality > problems with SuperMicro motherboards. Any opinions on SuperMicro > versus ASUS, WRT build quality, reliability, support, and speed? > > Thanks for your feedback. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com > --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- > NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, > Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... > NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... > > Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. > If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >