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Re: Motherboard recommendations for Warp ?

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From: Emilio A. Sovero
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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From: eas@alumnae.caltech.edu (Emilio A. Sovero)
Subject: Re: Motherboard recommendations for Warp ?
Date: 1996/04/23
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