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Article #17139Re: Motherboard recommendations for Warp ?
From: Emilio A. Sovero
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:00
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nbi@xnet.com (Peter Stein) writes: >In article <4lg5fl$bl4@nntp1.best.com>, J. Link <jlink@best.com> wrote: >> >>I know that this topic continually arises. However, I would appreciate >>recommendations for Pentium motherbords that are Warp compatible. I find the >>current situation very confusing and factual information is hard to find. The >>"Summary - PCI Motherboards for OS/2" at >>http://warp.eecs.berkeley.edu/os2/workbench/work.htm hasn't been updated since >>6 December 95. >> >I've been running Warp on a TYAN (www.tyan.com) Titan-III for 2 >weeks now without any problems. This is with a P5-133, 512k PBS cache, >and 32 Meg 60ns EDO. My system also includes a Matrox Millenium and >Adaptec 2940 both which are very Warp friendly. The TYAN boards are >very fast and the benchmarks I obtained on my system are in fact >higher than most published P5-133 benchmarks (OS2 benchmarks). My >PCBench9.0 were very good too, in fact my CPUmark score was higher >than any other P5-133 at one of the benchmark web pages. Having >said all this I think it's probably fair to say that TYAN, ASUS, >and Supermicro all make comparable high performing boards. My >decision to get TYAN is a direct consequence of simply having more >information at my disposal about TYAN than the others. >Peter Stein >nbi@xnet.com For people on a budget you should consider the Intel Atlantis (Sound+Video) or the Intel Endeavor (Sound). I have an Atlantis board and works great. You do need to get the latest drivers from ATI for the built in MACH64. Emilio eas@risc.rockwell.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,1a90c353b2b2bfa3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1044c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10cd94,1a90c353b2b2bfa3 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cd94,public From: eas@alumnae.caltech.edu (Emilio A. Sovero) Subject: Re: Motherboard recommendations for Warp ? Date: 1996/04/23 Message-ID: <4lj0ng$101@gap.cco.caltech.edu> X-Deja-AN: 150999767 references: <4lg5fl$bl4@nntp1.best.com> <4lilvs$asr@flood.xnet.com> organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,bit.listserv.os2-l