From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 26 10:36:42 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA00155 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 10:36:42 -0800 Received: from inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com (inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com [16.1.0.22]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA00147 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 10:36:34 -0800 Received: from rks32.pcs.dec.com by inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com (5.65/10Aug94) id AA14157; Thu, 26 Jan 95 03:28:04 -0800 Received: by rks32.pcs.dec.com (Smail3.1.27.1 #16) id m0rXSMO-0005M7C; Thu, 26 Jan 95 12:27 MEZ Message-Id: To: mmead%goof.com@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com Cc: hackers%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com In-Reply-To: Message from "matthew c. mead" of Wed, 25 Jan 95 16:01:57 EST. Reply-To: gj@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Motherboards Revisitied (GIGA-BYTE) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 95 11:27:32 GMT From: "gj%pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Well, the best sounding motherboard that I have come across (if I stick > with the VLB motherboard option) is a GIGA-BYTE. Does anyone know of any > problems with their motherboards, or are they supposed to be pretty good? From > what I've heard they seem to be pretty stable. It's got an AWARD BIOS (never > heard of it...)... any experiences? Thanks... > > -matt I have a (really old) GIGA-BYTE MB which has served me faithfully with no problems. It's so old that the VL Bus slots were made to GIGA-BYTE's own spec. The only problem it's ever given me was when I tried to use an AMD DX2 in it. It couldn't find the FPU :( Using Bruce's memory speed program I get ~42 MB/sec to the L2-cache and ~26MB/sec to main memory, which are pretty good results. There's a magazine here in Germany called c't which regularly tests all MBs. GIGA-BYTE boards are almost always part of the group. Let me know which model you're interested in and I can check whether it was tested and tell you what c't thought of it. >From memory I can say that not all GIGA-BYTE boards were found to be good. But some of them were very good. It really depends a lot on which model you look at. Gary J.