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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!sbctri.tri.sbc.com!newspump.wustl.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!news.new-york.net!ritz.mordor.com!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: PentiumPro: Any Decent Motherboards? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Lines: 46 Organization: Mordor International Message-ID: <DttDB6.5x@ritz.mordor.com> References: <4qshb3$f3b@pier2.bayarea.net> <4qut13$9p@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4r3ogd$2pi@news.clinet.fi> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:57:06 GMT Mika Ruohotie (mickey@cantina.clinet.fi) wrote: : J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: : >mcnab@bayarea.net (David McNab) wrote: : >> Are there /any/ P6 motherboards that work properly? : >wcarchive's one? :-) But i think it's a gift from Intel. : : isn't all of them more or less from intel, if nothing else, the cpu? also : in other boards the chipset is always intel... Alternate chipset vendors couldn't hurt. In the past, it always seemed that Intel passed off whatever they could "get away with" as "cutting edge" until other vendors offered competing products. I rather like competition for that reason. :-) : i think GigaBute already also has P6 board that's good, they also have : DUAL P6 board i'm tempted to get... There are a number of companies with PP boards, but I think most (if not all) use the Intel chipset (orion at this stage)...yeck... : anyway, i'd suggest looking for GigaByte, i dont have the documentation i : could check the code for the board, it's at work... Or Tyan or Asus or....None of these boards have been available long enough for there to be any real "net.consensus" as to which ones work or don't work. If anyone has this kind of information, please share. :-) : >> the next generation chipsets come out? : >There have been rumours that Intel has been fixing their chipset : >problems. : : but i think the latest Orion-chipset only had major probs in the multi CPU : sections, it added some wait states if there's more than 4 CPUs present... I still haven't seen Intel really admitting there were any serious problems (did I miss some announcement?), but I've heard unofficially from folks that some of the more glaring problems (like the limited bandwidth available for RAM access) have been fixed. If anyone has the specifics, I'd love to hear about it. I really wish Intel would be more forthcoming in terms of reporting bugs...grrrrr... Cheers, Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451