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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Buying a new system: hardware suggestions? Message-ID: <1993Mar16.021118.5546@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1993Mar15.235027.6087@sophia.smith.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 02:11:18 GMT Lines: 36 In article <1993Mar15.235027.6087@sophia.smith.edu> jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber) writes: > I have an Orchid Superboard 486/50Mhz 256k cache VESA local bus. And have tested a couple of different S3 local bus cards. So far, the S3 local bus cards have managed to benchmarked lower than their ISA counterpart. there is a hardware problem with S3 805 local bus cards. so at this point I am not recommending them. There are no problems with S3 911 local bus cards, they are just slower than S3 801 ISA cards. Also, I have a local bus IDE controller which is about 4 times faster than my IDE ISA controller. The cost of my local bus IDE controller (no cache) is $89 :-) Hopefully, soon the hardware performance problems with S3 cards will be solved. Amancio Hasty > >-- >=== jfieber@sophia.smith.edu ================================================ >======================================= Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush === -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming