Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 18:34:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Jacob Suter <jsuter@linus.intrastar.net> To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> Cc: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gigabyte motherboards Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970620183229.13297A-100000@linus.intrastar.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970620123749.7143B-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk>
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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/ > >
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