From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 12 15:00:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA27592 for current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:00:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.think.com (Mail1.Think.COM [131.239.33.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA27556 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from Early-Bird-1.Think.COM by mail.think.com; Tue, 12 Mar 96 18:00:00 -0500 Received: from compound (fergus-26.dialup.cfa.org) by Early-Bird.Think.COM; Tue, 12 Mar 96 17:59:55 EST Received: (from alk@localhost) by compound (8.6.12/8.6.112) id RAA14189; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:00:10 -0600 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:00:10 -0600 Message-Id: <199603122300.RAA14189@compound> From: Tony Kimball To: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org, fty@mcnc.org Subject: 5x86s Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: "Frank E. Terhaar-Yonkers" Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:43:40 -0500 All this talk about motherboards ... I've been salivating over advertisements of PCI "586" mb's at < $200. Using Cyrix, Nexgen, etc chips. Anyone had experience with any of these? Are we talking snake oil? Or, are these folks really putting it to Intel? My Cyrix 5x86-120GP chip runs about as fast as a Pentium would at 86MHz, for my applications. A Cyrix 150MHz chip (if there is one) should toast my P100. I was unlucky with my first MoBo, a UMC, as it did not support bus mastering DMA on ISA, and I needed to use a 1542. I returned it and purchased an ASUS. Don't think the bum MoBo prob is unique to 486, though! Half the Taiwanese Pentium boards are next to useless as well. It is definitely worth a few bucks to find the right MoBo before you waste time on a cheapie that doesn't work. I'm unlikely to ever buy another Intel CPU, since I don't like the way they treat their employees, and I have other options. I'll still get stuck with their glue a lot, I suppose.