Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:45:53 -0500 (EST) From: <scanner@jurai.net> To: Richard Hodges <rh@matriplex.com> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103241441001.12236-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10103241116030.6262-100000@mail.matriplex.com>
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On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Richard Hodges wrote: > Thanks for the tip on the XL driver. Over the years, I have seen > many questions about which driver/card was the best, and all the > answers were pretty vague, or suggested that Intel had the edge. Yes. It's currently my understanding that the xl driver is indeed as reliable and as fast as the fxp. I know what your saying though. The fxp has been touted as the fastest. Years ago it was the de driver for DEC cards that was the screamer, then it became the fxp, but the xl driver is just as fast. > That's good news on the Tyan motherboard. The bad news is the price... > About $950 :-( Yeah when I saw that price I about had a stroke! My guess is it's going to be half that when it finally rolls out in april. AMD CPU's and AMD boards have *always* been cheaper then Intel parts. I really doubt Tyan is going to start breaking that now. Granted this is their first high end server board for K7's but Tyan always has faily decent prices on their MB's. I think that 950 is just an initial marketing price. But in relaity when it rolls out you will see it on pricewatch for half that. That's my guess. ============================================================================= -Chris Watson (316) 326-3862 | FreeBSD Consultant, FreeBSD Geek Work: scanner@jurai.net | Open Systems Inc., Wellington, Kansas Home: scanner@deceptively.shady.org | http://open-systems.net ============================================================================= WINDOWS: "Where do you want to go today?" LINUX: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" BSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" ============================================================================= irc.openprojects.net #FreeBSD -Join the revolution! ICQ: 20016186 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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