Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:53:28 -0500 (EST) From: Rashid Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: P6 and PCI Message-ID: <199603071453.JAA19072@rk.ios.com> In-Reply-To: <18363.826175397@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 6, 96 09:09:57 pm
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> > > I need to buy a PC soon and was wondering about the current crop of > > PCI chipsets . I seem to recollect some performance problems > > with the Orion chipset. > > If you don't need it right away, the Triton II sounds promising. > > Otherwise, I'd just get an ASUS Triton MB. I would stay away > from the Orion stuff for now simply due to cost - do you really > want to pay $1200 for JUST the motherboard? :-) > Jordan Don't even try to buy _decent PPro systems now. I have 5 of them here ( 150-200Mhz). They are stable, fast with arithmetics but PCI speed plainly SUCKS ! Makes them pretty much unusable for server kind of employment. Thanks to Intel ! I also suspect that graphics will be slow as hell too, so no worsktation either. I wonder if there will be a lawsuit ... anyway what they did is insane ! They had really fast and stable processor and shittiest chipset and instead of making us wait for a DECENT system, they just combined what they had at the time. I'm fishing around for the "Alder" SMP motherboard which runs ftp.freebsd.org and couple of other huge archives. This is supposedly one that does work. No luck so far :) I hope that in the summer we'll have SMP support in FreeBSD and then we'll fly really high :))) Rashid
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