Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:43:10 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: Penisoara Adrian <ady@warpnet.ro>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opinion on ATC5000 motherboard ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980309013827.10931E-100000@luke.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980309003746.3844x-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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> > I'm going to buy one of there (cheapo) ATC 5000 motherboards (or the > > newer versions like 5020 or 5050); does anyone know them to behave good or > > did anybody have any troubles with them ? > > And about that, what would it be you choice for a good & cheap > > motherboard in this category: > > * Socket 7 (supporting the whole range of "586" generation processors, > > e.g. Pentium 90-233Mhz (MMX), Cyrix, IBM-6x86, AMD K5 & K6, etc.) > > * More PCI buses than ISA > > * DIMM sockets (at least 2) > > * USB, PS/2 mouse > > * Preferably no ATX & SCSI onboard (due to bigger costs) > > www.tomshardware.com is a good starting point for stuff like this. > Socket7 boards are quite cheap (in comparison to P6/PII multiprocessor > boards :) ) and some are really really good. Be sure to get a board that can cache more than 64MB of RAM, which is rare in P5 boards, ESPECIALLY Intel Chipsets! I have a FIC PA2007, which does just about everything you would want in a P5 board, except AGP. I purchased the 1MB board from Leapfrog Labs for less than $100 I think. Another choice if you don't need SDRAM would be a board based on the Intel HX, but good luck finding a non-dual board that supports this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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