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John Scott (jascott@ibm.net) wrote:
: I am buying a new motherboard for the simple reason of uping my
: memory to 16 meg from 8.  My current motherboard only takes 30-pin
: memory and I hear the trend going towards 72-pin memory.  Right
: now I have a 486/dx66 VLB with VLB cirrus video card and VLB Vision
: EIDE controller card.  What motherboards have good records working
: with Warp?  I tried to access the IBM Warp Page for the file that
: that lists all the motherboards that have pasts there tests but
: it won't let me access for some reason.  Should I stick with the
: VLB motherboard or switch to PCI.  I don't have alot of money so
: I am probably not going to a Pentium just keeping what I have but
: with 72-pin memory, but the new motherboard should have the ability
: to handle the Pentium overdrive chip.

You might try a VLB/PCI combination board, but be careful if you do, 
since a lot of these don't have very good PCI bus performance.  I hear 
that both the Asus PVI-486SP3 and the Asus PVI-486AP4 will do the job and 
do the bus thing correctly.  I've seen reports of both being used 
successfully with OS/2.  I think they both have one VLB slot and three or 
four PCI slots, but both also have on-board IDE or EIDE controllers (the 
status of the AP4's controller is uncertain), so you'd be able to use 
your existing video board until you're ready to upgrade.

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					--Rod Smith
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