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Subject: Re: Giga-Byte GA586ATED board any good ?
To: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com (M C Wong)
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 12:01:23 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199512212245.AA237985907@relay.hp.com> from "M C Wong" at Dec 22, 95 09:45:01 am
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		Hi there folx,

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> Hi,
>     A friend is looking for a decent PCI board to run FreeBSD, and he is
> looking at Giga-Byte GA586ATED model. Does anyone have any experience with
> Giga-Byte board, and the above model in particular ?
> 
>     Thanks in advance.

	Go for the Number 1:
	ASUS started making P6 MBoards - and oh boy do they look impressive.
	I've ordered one( after jkh@ did it :)) and waiting for it to arrive
	in few days.
	In few words - it's P6 up to 200Mhz , up to 512Mb or RAM ( no more
	128Mb) limit and cache memory will cover the whole range - not like
	first 64 M only with Triton based MBs.

	The price is something around $2K for the MB with the processor 
	at 150Mhz - which is about 2 times more comparing to ASUS P55TP4Xe
	with P133 and 256K cache - but it's definitely worth it :)


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