Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 10:20:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@goldsword.com> To: jfarmer@goldsword.com, nicole@nmhtech.com Cc: cjames@opensite.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Motherboard comparisons Message-ID: <199905101420.KAA08641@rapier.goldsword.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990510002011.nicole@nmhtech.com>
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On Mon, 10 May 1999 00:20:11 Nicole Harrington said: > On 10-May-99 My Secret Spies Reported That John T. Farmer wrote: > > On Sun, 09 May 1999 18:18:21 Nicole Harrington said: > >> On 07-May-99 My Secret Spies Reported That Cathy James wrote: > >> >>I just ordered 3 motherboards for testing with the AMD k-6III 400. I > >> >>think they were (PO's at work) TYAN, FIC, ASUS. Since it seems a lot > >> >>of people are curious, I will post my tests when I get done in abt a week. > >> > > >> > Did you ever post this, Nicole, or is it still a work in progress? > >> > >> Hmm.. Poke poke... > >> > >> Well so far it is sort of work in progress. > >> > >> I found that Tyan does not have a 100Mhz buss ATX socket 7 MB, only AT. No > >> good. > > > > Buzz! Not True! Tyan makes the S1590S Trinity 100 AT with the VIA Apollo > > MVP3 AGPset chipset. This board is solid and _very_ stable. It also > > supports parity & ECC memory operations at the 100Mhz level (see comment > > about the ASUS below). <http://www.tyan.com/products/html/s1590s.html>; > > This is _the_board_ to use (IMHO) for low cost, high performance servers > > (I've used it in both FreeBSD and Netware5 systems without a probem.) > > > > It will also work with either AT or ATX style power supplies (for extra > > control/monitoring...) > > The pure ATX version is the S1592S Trinity ATX. Look at: > > <http://www.tyan.com/products/html/s1592s.html>; > > > > That may be, however as stated. It is an AT board, not what I needed. The > board you have listed above does not handle 100MHZ Bus speeds. Thus K6-400 is > not an option on it :<. I know I made the same mistake. Luckely my supplier > makes exchanges. Sorry, my bad. I should know at this stage in my life to not trust statements made by some of my wholesale sources (or to answer mail after a very long day...). I predominantly use AT format boards for servers (rarely need or care about serial or parallel ports...) and I took my vendor's statement at face value... It is indeed a shame. While I like ASUS P5A series for low cost systems, the Tyan S1590S is a truely excellent board (AT format thou!!) > <SNIP> > > >> BTW, my application is for the new FreeBSD port of the Inktomi caching > >> software. Good stuff! I plan on talking about it at the next BAFUG meeting. > >> (www.bafug.org) > >> > > > > Tell us more!!! > > > > Well, since you can't come to the meeting, please check the bafug website ater > the meeting for more info. Also please feel free to visit www.inktomi.com. > > Nicole Just did & added them to my FreeBSD/ISP related bookmarks! John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John T. Farmer Owner & CTO GoldSword Systems jfarmer@goldsword.com 423-691-6498 Knoxville TN Internet Services & Servers, Network Design, Consulting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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