Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 21:19:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> To: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com> Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, ludwigp@bigfoot.com, conrads@neosoft.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherboard choices [WAS: Re: Advice on audio strategy needed] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970627210618.11322A-100000@lightning.tbe.net> In-Reply-To: <199706271854.OAA28641@sabre.goldsword.com>
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> Right now, that's what I'm recommending for low-cost servers (the T2P4). > It works with all of the Intel chips (haven't tried it with MMX ones > yet.), all the AMD K5-series chips, and the Cyrix 686 chips. We had a problem with the Cyrix 6x86-166+ on an Asus T2P4 board a couple months back, but that is the only problem we have ever had with an Asus board. My partner has two boards, one Intel-200 (no MMX) and one P-100, and has had absolutely no problems with them. On my machine and in one of our servers we have Gigabyte boards. I have the HX set, and it appears that was the most stable one. I am definately buying more for our servers and any other machines we build. The extra $20-$30 you spend on the 'name' boards is definately worth it...we have a machie with a no-name board in it and it just up and reboots every once in a while, and that has a VX set on it. We are going to replace that one as soon as possible. > > For the Win95 machines, I think that the VX97 (as you suggested) will > be the best choice. > We had problems with earlier VX chipsets, and by now they should be better, though my personal choice would be to stick with the HX set just because of past experiences, though the new TX boards are supposed to be good. If you want some benchmarks, take a look at the following page: http://www.esc-ca.com/notbenmb.htm Good luck! -Gary Margiotta TBE Internet Services http://www.tbe.net
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