Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 06:36:25 -0800 From: "Scott Hess" <scott@avantgo.com> To: <up@3.am>, "Olaf Hoyer" <ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Cc: <hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Server mainboards, was: Re: Gigabyte Athlon motherboard Message-ID: <1d3201bf5c41$3d31b280$1e80000a@avantgo.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001100747450.18042-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> <4.1.20000111120908.00c57df0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de>
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Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> wrote: > Personally, I made good experience with ASUS and Tyan boards. <...> > Other question: JUst had a discusion with some guys on another mailing > list(also being some salesmen/ computer doctors) that mentioned that they > find Tyan not being in the upper field in general. Also TYan is not that > widespread in USA. Can someone confirm this? A pair of my favorite vendors (www.esc-ca.com and http://www.tdl.com/~netex/) at one point conciously carried primarily Asus over Tyan because Asus had an order of magnitude lower return rate due to mechanical problems. [Actually, I seem to recall that their Asus return rates were low enough that it was hard to derive anything from why they were returned.] Both of them now carry a wider variety of non-Asus motherboards than they did back then - but still not Tyan. Later, scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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