From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 25 18:43:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA14282 for current-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 18:43:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA14266; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 18:43:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from packet.eng.umd.edu (packet.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.184]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA12389; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:43:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by packet.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA02604; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:43:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: packet.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:43:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@packet.eng.umd.edu To: Gary Palmer cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , current@freebsd.org, smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations... In-Reply-To: <16722.846291846@orion.webspan.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote in message ID > : > > I haven't yet got my Tyan Titan Pro (I pick it up today) so I can't really > > make a recommendation about it yet, sorry. I can tell you that I did look > > around for a long time, and that was my choice, FWIW. > > I have 2 Tital Pro's at work. Seem like nice motherboards. Up to 1Gb > RAM (if you can get the mystical 128Mb SIMMS). Our news box runs on > one (yeah, yeah, P6 is overkill, but it makes expire nice and fast :) ) The Asus boards, with 440FX chipsets and dual processors, split the processors up in daughterboards, and were relatively much more expensive for what _seemed_ like the same features, so since I have had such good luck so far with my other Tyan board, I went this way. Paid $2021 for the Titan Pro, 2 p6/166s with 512K cache each, and 64 Megs of EDO ram, from Robert Odell, in Glendale, CA. > > Gary > -- > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------