From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 26 12:23:29 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA03331 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 12:23:29 -0800 Received: from inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com (inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com [16.1.0.22]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA03325 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 12:23:27 -0800 Received: from goof.com by inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com (5.65/10Aug94) id AA24130; Thu, 26 Jan 95 12:14:46 -0800 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by goof.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA05245; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 15:14:18 -0500 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199501262014.PAA05245@goof.com> Subject: Re: Motherboards Revisitied (GIGA-BYTE) To: gj@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 15:14:18 -0500 (EST) Cc: mmead%goof.com@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com, hackers%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com In-Reply-To: from "gj%pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com" at Jan 26, 95 11:27:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1660 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk gj%pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com wrote: > > Well, the best sounding motherboard that I have come across (if I stick > > with the VLB motherboard option) is a GIGA-BYTE. Does anyone know of any > > problems with their motherboards, or are they supposed to be pretty good? From > > what I've heard they seem to be pretty stable. It's got an AWARD BIOS (never > > heard of it...)... any experiences? Thanks... > > > > -matt > I have a (really old) GIGA-BYTE MB which has served me faithfully with > no problems. It's so old that the VL Bus slots were made to GIGA-BYTE's > own spec. The only problem it's ever given me was when I tried to use > an AMD DX2 in it. It couldn't find the FPU :( Using Bruce's memory > speed program I get ~42 MB/sec to the L2-cache and ~26MB/sec to main > memory, which are pretty good results. Sounds pretty good... > There's a magazine here in Germany called c't which regularly tests all > MBs. GIGA-BYTE boards are almost always part of the group. Let me know > which model you're interested in and I can check whether it was tested > and tell you what c't thought of it. The people who sell it said it's their VF motherboard. It's a 486 VLB/ISA motherboard. > >From memory I can say that not all GIGA-BYTE boards were found to be good. > But some of them were very good. It really depends a lot on which model > you look at. Hmm. Let me know if you need more information... -matt -- Matthew C. Mead -- System/Network Administration, User Support, Software Devel. Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research Work Related: mmead@ctr.vt.edu | All Other: mmead@goof.com WWW: http://www.goof.com:/~mmead