Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 07:31:36 -0700 (PDT) From: jin@george.lbl.gov To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, michael.e.remski@lmco.com Subject: Re: Motherboard Upgrades Message-ID: <199906071431.HAA29131@george.lbl.gov>
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defintely? It is good recommendation, but not defintely if you looked at p9-10 on www-itg.lbl.gov/~jin/performance.pen.ps It is a good motherboard with some drawback: (1) only four expension slots -- 2 PCI, 1 PCI/ISA, 1 ISA (2) It is designed for K6-II/III only -- you cannot use old components -- most people don't need (3) FreeBSD 3.x or later has problem on boot manager to boot FreeBSD on second disk or on second partition (2,3,4 on DOS partition) The FIC 503+ seems having better memory performance than P5A, and it can use old memory SIMM/DIMM. It is a little hard to use in two place: setting jummper for memory and bus -- most has only one -- this is because that you can use a fast CPU with slower memory; save memory. The board layout is not prefected. The mounting hole and keyboard hole are mis-aligned, so the mounting is a little harder. Not big deal. Also, sometimes, it seems to be dead, but reset will "rescue" it :-) -Jin >Anyone looking to upgrade a Pentium class machine, should defintely look >at the ASUS P5A with a K6-III on it. I performed this brain transplant >over the weekend (swapped out a Pentium-166) and so far, no problems at >all. Really was a simple swap. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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