Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 11:05:05 -0400 From: Michael Remski <michael.e.remski@lmco.com> To: jin@george.lbl.gov Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherboard Upgrades Message-ID: <375BDFA1.3CA0@lmco.com> References: <199906071431.HAA29131@george.lbl.gov>
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Well, following a bit of traffic on the lists, the VIA chipsets on the FIC seem to have some "issues". I wasn't sure how any of them would affect me, but the ASUS seemed to have gotten a lot of good press, so that was an influence. Expandability was not a big issue for me, my system is all SCSI, FreeBSD only, so all I needed as a couple of PCI slots and a couple ISA (NIC). A K6-III/400 with 128 MB PC100 SDRAM was a reasonably priced package. I'm not disagreeing with anything you've said, I was merely trying to report that in my instance, for the price and the ease of replacement (really only an hour of my time, including a couple of reboots to get the CMOS clock setting right), that I felt it was a good deal. thanks for sharing your view. mike -- "You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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