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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!nic.hookup.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!elh From: elh@netcom.com (Ed Hudson) Subject: Pentium motherboard / $pentium source Message-ID: <elhCJuLA7.B3y@netcom.com> Summary: where one can buy $pentiums and their mother-boards Keywords: pentium Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 23:01:17 GMT Lines: 64 howdy. i've gotten a few requests for my pentium/motherboard source information that i'm running FreeBSD/XFree86 on. motherboad: 'Super P5VESA' uses 72-pin sims, minimum two. has 4 sim sockets, can use 32mby sims upto 128mby memory. 60/66mhz pentium 3 local bus slots run at 33mhz (they're buffered) upto 512kby secondary cache motherboards are burned in 48hrs, opti chip set. flash-bios option. made locally (silicon valley). manufacturer: Super Micro Computer, Inc 2178 Paragon Drive, San Jose, CA 95131 Tel: 408 451-1118 motherboard and pentium purchased at: Central Computer Systems, Inc 820 Kiely Boulevard, Santa Clara, CA 95051 Tel: 408 241 0185 60mhz 512k mother-board price: $565 (less for smaller cache and no flash bios) 60mhz pentium: $875 pentium fan: $ 19 60ns 16meg 72-pin simms: $629 ea. + welfare-state-tax availabiltiy: i picked up my board/pentium/simms the same day i ordered them. other comments: i called the manufacterer before buying the board. they said that they had booted sco and svr4's on the boards (problems i've had at the 386/486 generation). i'm very pleased with the mother-board, and i think it looks well built. the pentium needs a chip fan, and the placement of this directly ontop of the pentium makes two of the 3 vesa-local-bus slots unusable for long vlb cards (they work fine for most vlb cards, however. for example, the ultrastore-34f needs to be in the long slot, and the orchid f1280+vlb fits fine in any of the three vlb slot). i'm recommending the mother boads for use by one of my current consulting contractees. overall, i get about 4x the performance of my 486dx-25/isa system.