Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 13:23:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Brian Tao <taob@nbc.netcom.ca>, FREEBSD-CHAT-L <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SMP motherboard advice... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970916131932.19123A-100000@dot.ishiboo.com> In-Reply-To: <199709161846.UAA08882@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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You want the ASUS P2L97-DS. They run a bit under $600 USD, and will be available next week. Check out www.atipa.com. Also has AGP port (about 10X faster than PCI for large 3D manipulations). It is a P-II motherboard. Normal Pentium-MMX chipsets will not be able to provide that combination of features. The TX chipset which has most the bells and whistles can not cache over 128MB and has no SMP support. Kevin On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Mark Murray wrote: > I dunno about the MMX, but the Giga-Byte GA586DX does the rest. > > Visit www.giga-byte.com. I am a happy customer. > > M > > Brian Tao wrote: > > I'm not sure if this motherboard even exists, so I'm tossing out > > the question here before moving it to freebsd-smp or other list. Is > > there a product out there that has the following features: > > > > * dual Pentium MMX CPU support > > * at least 75 MHz bus speed > > * at least 4 PCI slots > > * at least 3 SDRAM slots > > * can cache a full 512MB of RAM > > * on-board ultrawide SCSI > > * must work with FreeBSD-SMP ;-) > > > > I've always gone with ASUS, but the closest product they have is > > the P/I-P65UP5 and the P/E-P55T2P4D, neither of which have SDRAM > > support or on-board SCSI, and the P65UP5 uses a proprietary CPU > > daughtercard. I'm thinking of putting together a system with dual > > P166's or P200's, possibly overclocked to 225 MHz (75*3). > > > > Is there such a beast out there, or should I forego the SDRAM > > requirement (I doubt it would make a difference for what will > > basically be my personal gaming machine). > > -- > > Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) > > "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" > > > -- > Mark Murray > Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org > > >
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