Date: Thu, 26 Jan 95 11:27:32 GMT From: "gj%pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com" <garyj@rks32.pcs.dec.com> To: mmead%goof.com@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com Cc: hackers%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com Subject: Re: Motherboards Revisitied (GIGA-BYTE) Message-ID: <m0rXSMO-0005M7C@rks32.pcs.dec.com> In-Reply-To: Message from "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com> of Wed, 25 Jan 95 16:01:57 EST.
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> 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.
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