Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 12:04:37 +0100 From: "José Mª Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com>, Gregory Benjamin <gregb@laserlab.com>, Jonathan Walters <jwalters@interlog.com>, "Plucker, Prentice" <prentice.plucker@lodgenet.com> Subject: Re: 440GX chipset? Message-ID: <363EE345.DC96EB96@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <363E33DE.91F92A6D@we.lc.ehu.es>
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Thanks very much for your answers! I'm summarizing: [From "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com>]: 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. [ME]: Thanks for your recommendation. I know that Tyan has good products, but unfortunately Tyan mb's are not an option for us because lack of distribution in our area. [Gregory Benjamin <gregb@laserlab.com>]: Try this url: http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/440GX/p6dgs.htm [ME]: That was the first thing I did! :-) However, Supermicro does not offer enough technical information about their mb's. [Jonathan Walters<jwalters@interlog.com>]: I believe that chipset is only for Slot-2 processors (Xeon). Tyan is now advertising one on their website as well. [ME]: The P6DGS mb accepts _only_ Pentium II processors. Supermicro offers other motherboards (called S2Gxx), also based on the 440GX chipset, _only_ for Xeon processors. So I would like to know whether there is some benefits from using a 440GX/PentiumII mb instead of a 440BX one. ["Plucker, Prentice" <prentice.plucker@lodgenet.com>]: Check out www.tomshardware.com for some info on this board. I avoided it because I am not a fan of the AMI Winbios. [ME]: I did it, but I could not find anything. Perhaps those motherboards are too new. I don't like the AMI Winbios, but... has the BIOS any importance when running an operating system (such as FreeBSD) which does not use the BIOS services? My conclusion: <ANGRY> Intel and its marketing strategy ("new" chipsets and processors three or four times in a year) should go to the hell right now (together with Microsoft, of course). </ANGRY> -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jose M. Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del Pais Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica | Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-944647700 x2624 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-944858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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