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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!sthaug From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: "Chips" no-name brand Pentium motherboard? Date: 20 Mar 1996 19:41:12 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ipn3u$1af@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <960319153113-rrwood@io.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: trane.uninett.no In-reply-to: Roy Wood's message of Tue, 19 Mar 96 15:35:47 -0500 [Roy Wood] | Anyway, I'm deciding between a Gigabyte motherboard (solid reputation) | or a no-name brand motherboard, and I was wondering if anyone had any | warnings or advice in this area. The no-name motherboard also has | pipeline-burst cache, Triton chipset, and supports up to 200MHz CPU's, | and is about $50 cheaper. Anyone used a "Chips" brand motherboard with | FreeBSD? The only other thing I know about it is that it's manufactured | in China.... I wonder if you're being offered the same motherboard that I have. It's extremely anonymous - the user's manual doesn't have *anything* like a brand name or country of origin! It's also written in some of the worst English I've ever seen (but the necessary facts are there, if you can manage to dig through the "English" :-) The motherboard is called P55-ET, and actually works extremely well for me, running FreeBSD-2.1R like a charm on a P133. And yes, it's made in China. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no