Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:37:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Rashid Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com> To: mcnab@bayarea.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PentiumPro Motherboards Message-ID: <199607040137.VAA16179@rk.ios.com> In-Reply-To: <199607032344.QAA02671@baygate.bayarea.net> from "David McNab" at Jul 3, 96 04:44:12 pm
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Hi there folx, > > I've been asked to find a good P6 m/b for use in a > set of FreeBSD machines we're buying instead of our > usual overpriced SGI's. (No thanks, I would rather not > pay $8,000 for 128MB of memory...) > > I've heard from reliable sources that the Intel > Aurora (sorry, "Performance/AU") motherboard (sorry, > "baseboard") works well with 200Mhz P6 (sorry, > "PentiumPro") CPUs and FreeBSD. > > However, for some strange reason, I would /prefer/ > not to buy Intel boards. So I've been looking at the > ASUS P/E-P6RP7D board instead. It looks fine, except > that the PCI chipset is listed as "Intel 82450GX > (Orion)", whereas the Intel documentation on the Aurora > board says it uses the "82450 PCISet" chipset, the > sub-components of which all seem to end with "KX". > > Anyone know if the PCI chipset on the ASUS board > the same as on the Aurora? Does the magic "GX" make > all the difference? Anyone actually own or use one of > these ASUS boards? (The main thing I'm concerned about > is the PCI-write bug, although if there are other > things to watch out for I'd like to hear about them.) PPRo's aren't used widely yet , therefore there's relative shortage of info on the topic. I do use use PPro here and I use it for quite a time now. Yes it works , works fast and you can use ASUS single-CPU boards but BE CAREFULT to get MBs with fixed stepping! I had to change mines here ( ASUS was kind enough to do it). What bothers me is that 99% of those PPro MBs have only 3 or 4 PIC slots on them. Stupid. I'd like to have 3 or 4 SCSI adapters and 2 Fast Ethernets per box. Alder has more , but then again it is not available :( ALR has allegedly nice 4 CPU MB, but looks noone has tested it yet under real OS , which FreeBSD is an example of :)) Rashid.
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