From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Nov 2 20:21:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06204 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 20:21:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quark.ChrisBowman.com (crbowman.erols.com [209.122.47.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA06199 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 20:21:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) Received: from fermion (fermion [10.0.1.2]) by quark.ChrisBowman.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04730; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 00:27:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) Message-Id: <199811030527.AAA04730@quark.ChrisBowman.com> X-Sender: crb@quark X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 23:20:31 -0500 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Jos=E9_M=AA_Alcaide=22?= From: "Christopher R. Bowman" Subject: Re: 440GX chipset? Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <363E33DE.91F92A6D@we.lc.ehu.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id UAA06200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:36 PM 11/2/98 +0100, José Mª Alcaide wrote: >Hello, > >We are going to purchase five PCs before the end of the year. They >will be configured as workstations running under FreeBSD 3.0. >We are now looking for a good motherboard: dual PII processor, >UW SCSI, etc. Our usual choices are Asus and Iwill, but our >main PC supplier offers now new machines based on Supermicro >motherboards. More precisely, the Supermicro P6DGS, which is >based on the Intel 440GX chipset. However, I don't have any references >about that motherboard, and I would like to hear any stories >from people using it with FreeBSD 3.0. Moreover, I don't know >anything about the 440GX chipset. How does it compare to the >440BX? Tom's hardware guide doesn't mention this chipset. >Thanks, > >-- JMA Tyans S1836DLUAN THUNDER 100 seems to be a _REALLY_ nice board, its got it all and the only thing I would change is a dual channel U2W scsi Controller for the dual UW one. I think this is going to be my next board. http://www.tyan.com/html/s1836dluan.html -------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com http://www.ChrisBowman.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message