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From: michaelv@MindBender.serv.net (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD & ASUS-stuff
Date: 26 Aug 1996 06:57:22 GMT
Organization: Michael L. VanLoon
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In-reply-to: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi's message of 22 Aug 1996 12:20:53 +0300
In article <4vh8pl$qsj@cantina.clinet.fi> mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) writes:
Ola Lundberg <ola.lundberg@uhreg.mil.se> wrote:
>1. Is ASUS PI-P55T2P4 a good motherboard to use with FreeBSD ??
>2. Does the ASUS AV264CT-N Audio/Video card have support in FreeBSD ?
>3. Does ASUS SC-200 SCSI-adaper work too, and if it does do U still
>recomend a NCR PCI SCSI instead of it.?
well... i would really suggest using Gigabyte made GA586HX512, this
board ran circles around the ppro150 with just a _pentium_200... (tested
by some computer magazine about a month ago)
Well, the Asus is probably the single most recommended board among
FreeBSD and NetBSD users, so consider that while weighing options...
So, what you're trying to say is that the Gigabyte motherboard is so
magically wonderful, that it sped up the Pentium so fast it was faster
than even a Pentium Pro in someone else's board? Yeah, right...
I believe that a well optimized Pentium motherboard (Gigabyte, Asus,
Tyan, SuperMicro -- any Triton-2 will do) was able to out-perform an
early P6 motherboard _in_ _certain_ tests. There were some very well
documented bugs in early versions of the P6 Orion chipset that caused
severe performance problems.
But that's Apples to Oranges. That had nothing to do with the
wonderfulness of the Gigabyte board; an Asus would have done exactly
the same thing. It had everything to do with the horrible performance
bottlenecks in the early P6 Orion chipsets. I challenge you to try
and reproduce the same results on a new P6 Natoma-based board.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net
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