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From: somsky@dirac.phys.washington.edu (William R. Somsky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Any Experience w/ Triton II (430HX) MBoards & FreeBSD?
Date: 4 Jun 1996 20:15:56 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
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I've been watching comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, but haven't heard much
about whether anyone has tried any of the new Triton II (430HX)
based motherboards w/ FreeBSD.

I'm going to be ordering a new system for running FreeBSD (and DOS/Win
games :-) and am wondering whether I should go with a known stable
motherboard (such as the ASUS P55TP4N) and give up all memory checking,
or try one of the newer 430HX based motherboards (such as the ASUS P55T2P4
or Tyan Tomcat I) and be able to do ECC on my RAM.  (No arguments about
whether parity/ECC is worth it or not, please.  I'd like it to be _my_
choice whether to use parity/ECC or not, rather than Intel's...)

So, has anyone had any experience w/ the new 430HX based motherboards?
Good?  Bad?  Indifferent?  Should I go for it?  Or stay away?
________________________________________________________________________
William R. Somsky			      somsky@phys.washington.edu
Department of Physics, Box 351560		 B432 Physics-Astro Bldg
Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560		    206/616-2954