From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jun 7 8:15:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw3a.lmco.com (mailgw3a.lmco.com [192.35.35.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF6F1522D for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 08:15:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael.e.remski@lmco.com) Received: from emss04g01.ems.lmco.com ([166.17.13.122]) by mailgw3a.lmco.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18988; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 11:15:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-32 #38332) id <0FCY00A01QCVSF@lmco.com>; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 11:15:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sanw00100321 ([129.86.163.80]) by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-32 #38332) with SMTP id <0FCY00OXQQCTRL@lmco.com>; Mon, 07 Jun 1999 11:14:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 11:05:05 -0400 From: Michael Remski Subject: Re: Motherboard Upgrades To: jin@george.lbl.gov Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: michael.e.remski@lmco.com Message-id: <375BDFA1.3CA0@lmco.com> Organization: Sanders A Lockheed Martin Company MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <199906071431.HAA29131@george.lbl.gov> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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