From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 6 15:42:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA07005 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 15:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tippy.cybernet.com (tippy.cybernet.com [192.245.33.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA06984; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 15:42:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pcobb@localhost) by tippy.cybernet.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA00913; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 18:40:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.4-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199608061628.JAA19281@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 18:38:31 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: pcobb@cybernet.com From: "Paul N. Cobb" To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Subject: RE: P6 Natoma chipset Cc: netbsd-current@netbsd.org, hardware@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I just bought a P6 200 Mhz with the Natoma Chipset and it is definately faster moving memory around than the Orion 450 chipset. We've got one of those also and it it disappointingly slow. On 06-Aug-96 "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" wrote: >>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. >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Cobb Research Engineer pcobb@cybernet.com Cybernet Systems Corp. (313)668-2567 Ann Arbor, MI 'Is this a special moment or should we be disturbed?' - The Tick -----------------------------------------------------------------