Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 16:08:22 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Asus PCI/I-P55SP4 motherboard Message-ID: <199510262308.QAA00392@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 95 06:20:35 PDT." <199510261320.GAA04509@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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>> I'd like to hear from anyone with any experiance with this motherboard. I'm >> considering using it in wcarchive, and I'd like to know about performance and >> reliability. > >It has run make world's with a 2940, a few card compatibility tests etc, >looks to be okay. It is benchmarking slower than the PCI/I-P55TP4XE, but >I suspect that is because the book says it will run the 100Mhz chip with >70nS memory, which means they stuffed a wait state in it. I need to get >the Sis data books so I can tweak the BIOS values and know exactly what >it is actually doing as there are about 12 memory timing parameters. Can you be more precise about how much slower it is? Are we talking 2-3%, or are we talking 10-15+% slower? >Oh, and that board supports up to 200MHz chips per the 1.2 Errata sheet >stuck in my manual, though ASUS is not stuffing the VRM socket in the >board which means you can only go to 150Mhz (All chips faster than 150Mhz >use a 2.9V VRM power source). Hmmm...their Web page says it supports 167Mhz... -DG
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