From owner-freebsd-hackers  Wed Mar  6 21:10:16 1996
Return-Path: owner-hackers
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA00847
          for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 21:10:16 -0800 (PST)
Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA00833
          for <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 21:10:12 -0800 (PST)
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA18365; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 21:09:57 -0800 (PST)
To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: P6 and PCI 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Mar 1996 18:22:06 PST."
             <199603070222.SAA08387@rah.star-gate.com> 
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 21:09:57 -0800
Message-ID: <18363.826175397@time.cdrom.com>
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org
Precedence: bulk

> I need to buy a PC soon and was wondering about the current crop of
> PCI chipsets . I seem to recollect  some performance problems
> with the Orion chipset. 

If you don't need it right away, the Triton II sounds promising.

Otherwise, I'd just get an ASUS Triton MB.  I would stay away
from the Orion stuff for now simply due to cost - do you really
want to pay $1200 for JUST the motherboard? :-)

					Jordan