From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 11 6:37:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from bomber.avantgo.com (ws1.avantgo.com [207.214.200.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 466CC14E95 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 06:37:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@avantgo.com) Received: from river ([10.0.128.30]) by bomber.avantgo.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.5) with SMTP id 68; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 06:32:47 -0800 Message-ID: <1d3201bf5c41$3d31b280$1e80000a@avantgo.com> From: "Scott Hess" To: , "Olaf Hoyer" Cc: References: <4.1.20000111120908.00c57df0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Subject: Re: Server mainboards, was: Re: Gigabyte Athlon motherboard Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 06:36:25 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Olaf Hoyer 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