From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Nov 3 03:08:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA23131 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 03:08:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA22949 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 03:04:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA29492; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 12:04:38 +0100 Message-ID: <363EE345.DC96EB96@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 12:04:37 +0100 From: "José Mª Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del País Vasco - Dept. de Electricidad y Electrónica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG CC: "Christopher R. Bowman" , Gregory Benjamin , Jonathan Walters , "Plucker, Prentice" Subject: Re: 440GX chipset? References: <363E33DE.91F92A6D@we.lc.ehu.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks very much for your answers! I'm summarizing: [From "Christopher R. Bowman" ]: 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 ]: 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]: 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" ]: 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: 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). -- 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