Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:00:10 -0600 From: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM> To: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org, fty@mcnc.org Subject: 5x86s Message-ID: <199603122300.RAA14189@compound>
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From: "Frank E. Terhaar-Yonkers" <fty@mcnc.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:43:40 -0500
All this talk about motherboards ...
I've been salivating over advertisements of PCI "586" mb's at < $200.
Using Cyrix, Nexgen, etc chips. Anyone had experience with any of these?
Are we talking snake oil? Or, are these folks really putting it to Intel?
My Cyrix 5x86-120GP chip runs about as fast as a Pentium would at
86MHz, for my applications. A Cyrix 150MHz chip (if there is one)
should toast my P100. I was unlucky with my first MoBo, a UMC, as it
did not support bus mastering DMA on ISA, and I needed to use a 1542.
I returned it and purchased an ASUS.
Don't think the bum MoBo prob is unique to 486, though! Half the
Taiwanese Pentium boards are next to useless as well. It is
definitely worth a few bucks to find the right MoBo before you waste
time on a cheapie that doesn't work.
I'm unlikely to ever buy another Intel CPU, since I don't like the
way they treat their employees, and I have other options. I'll still
get stuck with their glue a lot, I suppose.
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