From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 25 12: 0:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B388A37B422 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA82382; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:00:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:00:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Lanny Baron Cc: Randy Bush , David Burton , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: asus recommendation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Lanny Baron wrote: > Hello, > In my HO, the INTEL (TM) D815EEAL which comes with onboard Intel > Pro100 as as desktop machine, works extremely well and fast. Uses > 133 MHZ bus for both ram and cpu and is inexpensive. Thats just fine for a desktop machine, but I wouldn't use one for a server. > IMHO, Asus, SUCKS big time. My pII400 is exactly 1/2 the speed of my PII > 266 with ASUS boards. Comparing it (Asus vs Intel D815)to a home/office > system I just built it was a joke to see the increase in perfomance. Thats funny, since ASUS consistently outperforms every other motherboard manufacturer in just about every benchmark anywhere that I've seen. Some of those benchmarks suck and are meaningless, but some are good and attempt to be as "real-world" as possible, and the fact that they take the top of nearly every benchmark (for consumer boards) that people have thrown at them should tell you something. Even ASUS has made a bad line of boards, though, so it might just be the particular model you have, or it could be a misconfiguration on your part. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message