Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 15:14:18 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com> To: gj@FreeBSD.org Cc: mmead%goof.com@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com, hackers%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com Subject: Re: Motherboards Revisitied (GIGA-BYTE) Message-ID: <199501262014.PAA05245@goof.com> In-Reply-To: <m0rXSMO-0005M7C@rks32.pcs.dec.com> from "gj%pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com" at Jan 26, 95 11:27:32 am
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gj%pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com wrote: > > 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. Sounds pretty good... > 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. The people who sell it said it's their VF motherboard. It's a 486 VLB/ISA motherboard. > >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. Hmm. Let me know if you need more information... -matt -- Matthew C. Mead -- System/Network Administration, User Support, Software Devel. Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research Work Related: mmead@ctr.vt.edu | All Other: mmead@goof.com WWW: http://www.goof.com:/~mmead
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