Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 03:08:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> Cc: smp@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GigaByte GA-586DX-512 Motherboard Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961112030357.10178A-100000@quagmire.ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199611120720.AAA26401@clem.systemsix.com>
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On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Steve Passe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I asked my supplier for a quote on the GigaByte GA-586DX-512
> > Motherboard, and got the following response:
> >
> > ----
> > I am still searching for the GigaByte GA-586DX-512 Motherboard.
> > Apparantly they have had a great deal of problems with this board and are not
> > carrying it anymore. I still might find one but would you consider getting
> > something more reliable. eg. Asus. Let me know what you need ie: PCI/ISA/EISA
> > and tomarrow I can find prices for you.
> > ----
> >
> > Can anyone comment on this? I've always had good dealing with
> > the ASUS brand of motherboards, but is there an equivalent ASUS motherboard
> > that ppl would recommend?
> >
> > I'm wondering if their "great deal of problems" might have been
> > with earlier models, and they just said to hell with carrying it altogether?
>
> or they just want to sell you what they have experience with (or can make
> more money on).
>
> This is the board that I pound on many hours a day, and have never had a lick
> of trouble with it. It supports the MP spec properly (and there's a LOT
>of room in that spec to do stupid things). Never seen a sigfault that "smells"
> of the flaky memory sub-system variety. I do see occasional faults, but we
> know the current SMP kernel is not "doing the good thing" in all respects
>yet. From my limited experience of one board I would not hesitate to recommend
>it. Try www.atipa.com, they could probably have one to you by end of the week.
>
Okay...sound arguments :)
How does this sound:
GigaByte GA-586DX-512
Intel Pentium 133 (is 133 that much better then 120 to warrant extra
cost?)
64Meg of RAM (EDO?)
How about Hard Drive? atipa doesn't list Seagates, that I can find,
and recent experiencees with Quantum are steering me clear of them.
Essentially, I'm looking at setting up a server that I can play with
SMP on, but if I get a crash/core, I can confidently send in a bug report on
without being worried its a hardware problem :)
Thanks...
Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net
Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org
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