Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:06:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@r74h25.res.gatech.edu> To: Bruce.Albrecht@seag.fingerhut.com (Bruce Albrecht) Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: P6 MB recommendations Message-ID: <199703051906.OAA23756@r74h25.res.gatech.edu> In-Reply-To: <9703051603.AA28215@gf006e0.fingerhut.com.> from Bruce Albrecht at "Mar 5, 97 10:03:02 am"
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> I'm planning to purchase a dual P6 system in the next 3 weeks, and I'm > looking for opinions about various mothboards and/or systems. I'm > only planning on buying one P6-200 CPU now, and a second one in about > 6 months. I'm only planning on using SCSI peripherals, mainly because > I intend to liberate a bunch of drives from my Amiga. > > I'm looking at: > > Micron Millenia Pro2 with an AH2940UW controller > > Custom Tyan Titan Pro ATX (Award BIOS), ASUS AS200 SCSI + either Tyan 875 or > ASUS 875 UW controller, Matrox Millenium > > Custom ASUS P65UP5/CP6ND, ASUS AS200 + ASYS 875 controller, Matrox Millenium > > GigaByte 686DX, ASUS AS200 + ASYS 875 controller, Matrox Millenium > > I'm leaning towards the custom Tyan system, probably from RC Systems. If > you've got one (or purchased from RC Systems), I'd like to hear from you. > Should I stay away from the Tyan 875 controller, since they've discontinued > it, or should that not really matter, since it's just another Symbios 875 > chipset controller? Thanks. I've been running the ASUS P/I-P65UP5 with the C-P6ND cpu card for a couple of months now. It runs pretty well with FreeBSD-SMP. I've got an Adaptec 3940UW and Matrox Millenium, and haven't seen much trouble from it. I've also got 3 DEC 21140-based network cards in it, and a GUS PnP pro. The motherboard has 8 SIMM slots, for a maximum of 512MB, and 5 PCI slots. I assume that it will work with just one CPU. I'd check the ASUS web sites to make sure. (http://www.asus.com.tw, http://www.asus.com) Hope this helps, Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@r74h25.res.gatech.edu Disclaimer: I don't speak for GTRI, GT, or Elvis.
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