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#! rnews 1888 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!not-for-mail From: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dual cpu stuff... Date: 3 Sep 1996 14:54:50 +0300 Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland Lines: 30 Message-ID: <50h6aa$hmj@cantina.clinet.fi> References: <4vcsn4$7ql@cantina.clinet.fi> <MICHAELV.96Aug26003451@mindbender.serv.net> <5050g6$ob@cantina.clinet.fi> <MICHAELV.96Aug31173721@mindbender.serv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cantina.clinet.fi Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> wrote: >In article <5050g6$ob@cantina.clinet.fi> mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) writes: > natoma? not at all intel chipset? really? who sells them? >Natoma is an Intel chipset. It's the 440FX. It's more "Triton-like" >in that it supports EDO, BEDO, etc., and has many of the Orion bugs >fixed. does the PCI bus work well in that too? i've heard PCI bus problems in pentium pro's... also, is that natoma chipset same as this: (i got today new GVC made, actually BCM did it but GVC owns it, pro board which has these 3 chips) chip1 SB82391SB L6032310 SU052 chip2 SB82441FX L6124088 SU053 chip3 SB82442FX L6124101 SU054 since i do not yet have CPU for the board i cannot test it yet... what makes it interesting is the fact it's baby-at and eats oldfashion dc >It's used on boards like the latest ones from Asus and SuperMicro >(P6DNF and P6SNF). It's probably the chipset that's on the Gigabyte >board you were talking about. ok, anyone familiar with the dual cpu performance of these boards/chipsets side topic, any information about 430TX and 440LX? i've heard rumors... mickey