From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 14 08:41:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA21242 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:41:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (root@po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA21237 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:41:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from downlink.eng.umd.edu (downlink.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.182]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA20312; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:41:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by downlink.eng.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA15887; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:41:38 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: downlink.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:41:37 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@downlink.eng.umd.edu To: Chris Shenton cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard & ChipSet pointers? In-Reply-To: <199701141555.PAA18844@wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Chris Shenton wrote: > I'm looking to build out another FreeBSD box, with an emphasis on bang > per buck. So I'm planning on going Cyrix-P166+, rather than Intel... > The Cyrix-P200+ seems like more bang for a *lot* more bucks at this time. > If I'm outta line on this, feel free to clue me in. > > In the past, folks here have spoken highly of Asus and Tyan > motherboards; I've been surfing their webs trying to determine which > product from each has what features. Any recommendations on either? > Dual CPU support might be of interest if the incremental cost is > small, but I understand Cyrix doesn't yet operate in a dual mode. Any > other motherboard brands I should consider? Reliability and > performance are key. If you're thinking about dual CPUs, I think that any of the Cyrix processors will be permanently out of the running. See, they decided to go a different route with the interrupt handling, which is central to running multiple CPUs. The hardware to make the Cyrix CPUs multiprocess isn't there. > > I'm ignorant of which chipset does what, and what is desirable for > FreeBSD. E.g., What's the Intel HX and VX do, and which should I > prefer? What's flavor of the month? > > If you've got resource pointers so I can come up to speed on this, I'd > appreciate it. There's a Ham-fest this weekend and I'd like to go into > it more knowledgeable than I am now :-) > > Thanks. > > > > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------