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Article #35Re: High-End Pentium MB Recs wanted!
From: Hugh LaMaster
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 00:00
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I, too, am interested in this. I have pretty much eliminated the Triton boards, though. Most of them are not actually available yet. The few that are, are expensive. Neptune seems to be much more mature. Triton has only one technical advantage that I have so far identified, and that is that the Triton PCI interface is faster, and that framebuffer performance is usually faster on Triton. Of the Neptune boards, many people posting here seem to have either Intel Premiere II (Plato) boards, or ASUS boards. Besides Intel Neptune and SiS, there are boards based on the Opti chipset. Comments out there on which chipset is better? What about the BIOS? Do any of these boards support Fast ATA-2 in the BIOS? Fast ATA-2 drives are now available. Which BIOS is more flexible? Can all the BIOSes set wait-states? Support large (> 528 MB) drives? What about documentation- are all the boards well- documented, including all the little switches, BIOS settings, etc. How about board layout? Can they all take at least 7 full-sized boards (I know some boards have 4 PCI and 4 ISA - others share a slot - and some slots are for small boards only). What about performance - are there any significant performance differences between the various motherboards? (And, presumably, chipsets?) -- Hugh LaMaster, M/S 233-9, UUCP: ames!lamaster NASA Ames Research Center Internet: lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 Or: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov Phone: 415/604-1056 #include <std_disclaimer.h>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fe212,d77b20089d53cf6c X-Google-Attributes: gidfe212,public X-Google-Thread: 11196f,d77b20089d53cf6c X-Google-Attributes: gid11196f,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,d77b20089d53cf6c X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public From: lamaster@viking.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) Subject: Re: High-End Pentium MB Recs wanted! Date: 1995/04/15 Message-ID: <3mpf3c$nu8@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> X-Deja-AN: 100428185 distribution: world references: <3mlrql$1cn@thales.nmia.com> organization: NASA Ames Research Center newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,abq.comp