From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 02:59:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA28786 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 02:59:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA28775 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 02:59:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id TAA01033; Sat, 2 May 1998 19:27:55 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980502192755.J506@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 19:27:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Vincent Poy , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Socket 7 motherboards References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Vincent Poy on Sat, May 02, 1998 at 01:44:18AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2 May 1998 at 1:44:18 -0700, Vincent Poy wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We're planning to build a whole new FreeBSD machine using either a > AMD K6 or Pentium MMX CPU with 128 megs of memory. Since Intel 430HX > motherboards are hard to find and our only choice from Intel is the 430TX > which doesn't cache above 64meg, how good are the VIA chipset based > motherboards and do they work well with FreeBSD? Thanks. The German c't magazine recently tested a number of motherboards with non-Intel chipsets. Their results: the best are Ali Aladdin, then SiS, then Via. In particular, they weren't impressed with the Via VP3, though they found the newest version, the MVP3, to be OK. See the issue 5/1998 for more details. I've just bought a "Rise Mustang R581A" motherboard (http://www.rise.com.tw/r581a.htm), which includes an SiS 5591/5595 chipset. The specs look good--I'll report once I get round to installing it if anybody is interested. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message