From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jun 20 16:35:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA02138 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:35:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linus.intrastar.net (jsuter@linus.intrastar.net [206.136.25.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA02125 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:34:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jsuter@localhost) by linus.intrastar.net (8.8.5/TerraNovaNet) with SMTP id SAA13299; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 18:34:57 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 18:34:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Jacob Suter To: Stephen Roome cc: "Gary D. Margiotta" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gigabyte motherboards In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've had great experience with the Gigabyte SiS Socket 7 (I refuse to call it a 'pentium' board) motherboard.... I've used a k5/166, 6x86/P150+, and mostly an Intel Pentium 100 (because well, all the GOOD chips get put to 'more important' uses... bleh!)... I've never had any incompatability with any FreeBSD (2.1.7, several 2.2-gamma's, and 2.2.1r) releases that I have ran on it... Its also a spectacular Win95 (bleh!) board. I have heard some horror stories about the 'mboard' SiS chipset socket 7 board, but from what I hear mboard doesn't have the best reputation all the way around. JS On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Stephen Roome wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > > Just a quick (hopefully) question regarding gigabyte motherboards... > > > > We are currently running a Gigabyte GA-586HX board, and plan on getting > > another, but I wanted to know if anybody knew whether the GA-586-S board > > with the SIS chipset rather than the Intel was any better or worse. > > Personally, I think worse because it is cheaper, but you never know. TIA! > > I've got two GA-586DX boards here, which are the dual processor (hence > Intel based) ones which work nicely. However don't put SIS out of the > market, IMHO, the SIS chipsets are cheaper because of market forces not > their capability. > > I still run an old SIS based Pentium mainboard at home and from experience > SIS chipsets tend to do exactly the same job with similar performance as > Intel equipment, but for less money. > > Beware of what happened with SIS based graphics cards though, which had no > support from XFree86 or anyone else for ages. Anyway, you'd need some real > benchmarks to make a good evaluation, but I wouldn't put them down just > because they are cheaper/not Intel. > > -- > Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. > Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342 > WWW: http://dylan.visint.co.uk/ > >