Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:33:33 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherboards. Message-ID: <199810132033.NAA01142@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:44:12 EDT." <Pine.SGI.3.96.981013143350.26048b-100000@animaniacs.itribe.net>
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> > I am looking for a motherboard with as many pci slots as I can get. A > full 8 would be nice. It's really annoying that no one would have been > able to sell a 486 or 386 board without 8 isa slots, but it's hard to > find a decent pci MB with 5, much less more. SuperMicro has an 11 slot > with 8 pci and 3 isa, but it's I2O, and I refuse to go there. I am > going to be doing a processor upgrade in the near future, and while I > would like to buy a K6/2, I will probably go P2 just because the Slot 1 > boards I've seen tend to have more pci slots than the Super 7 boards. To get more than 4 or 5 slots you need to put a bridge on the board; this tends to drive the cost a long way up. You might want to look at a passive backplane solution; boards with 8 or 12 slots are common, though they usually take PICMG (sp?) processor cards, and you're looking at a lot more money here. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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