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From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@r74h25.res.gatech.edu>
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Subject: Re: P6 MB recommendations
In-Reply-To: <9703051603.AA28215@gf006e0.fingerhut.com.> from Bruce Albrecht at "Mar 5, 97 10:03:02 am"
To: Bruce.Albrecht@seag.fingerhut.com (Bruce Albrecht)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:06:03 -0500 (EST)
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> I'm planning to purchase a dual P6 system in the next 3 weeks, and I'm
> looking for opinions about various mothboards and/or systems.  I'm
> only planning on buying one P6-200 CPU now, and a second one in about
> 6 months.  I'm only planning on using SCSI peripherals, mainly because
> I intend to liberate a bunch of drives from my Amiga.
> 
> I'm looking at:
> 
> Micron Millenia Pro2 with an AH2940UW controller
> 
> Custom Tyan Titan Pro ATX (Award BIOS), ASUS AS200 SCSI + either Tyan 875 or
> ASUS 875 UW controller, Matrox Millenium
> 
> Custom ASUS P65UP5/CP6ND, ASUS AS200 + ASYS 875 controller, Matrox Millenium
> 
> GigaByte 686DX, ASUS AS200 + ASYS 875 controller, Matrox Millenium
> 
> I'm leaning towards the custom Tyan system, probably from RC Systems.  If
> you've got one (or purchased from RC Systems), I'd like to hear from you.
> Should I stay away from the Tyan 875 controller, since they've discontinued
> it, or should that not really matter, since it's just another Symbios 875
> chipset controller?  Thanks.


	I've been running the ASUS P/I-P65UP5 with the C-P6ND cpu card for
a couple of months now.  It runs pretty well with FreeBSD-SMP.  I've got an
Adaptec 3940UW and Matrox Millenium, and haven't seen much trouble from it.
I've also got 3 DEC 21140-based network cards in it, and a GUS PnP pro.

	The motherboard has 8 SIMM slots, for a maximum of 512MB, and 5 PCI
slots.  

	I assume that it will work with just one CPU.  I'd check the ASUS
web sites to make sure.  (http://www.asus.com.tw, http://www.asus.com)


Hope this helps,


Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@r74h25.res.gatech.edu
Disclaimer:  I don't speak for GTRI, GT, or Elvis.