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Article #56Re: 486 PCI Chipsets better than Pentium PCI Chipsets?
From: Moh Mubaslat
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 1995 00:00
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kbennett@cpcug.org (Keith Bennett) wrote: >I'm trying to decide between getting a 486-120 AMD CPU and a Pentium 90. >Either motherboard would be PCI. There seem to be so many problems with >the Pentium PCI motherboards. People have said to stay away from >Neptune, Triton, etc. Yet I haven't heard such warnings about 486 PCI >motherboards. Is this because they are more reliable or because they are >far less common? >I'll be using it for OS/2, in case that helps. >- Keith >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Keith Bennett Bennett Business Solutions, Inc. >Silver Spring, MD USA OS/2 & DOS Software Development >kbennett@cpcug.org (301) 871-7696 I'm using Triton MB, with os2 and Win95, they run greate, the only thing i had to update is my bios, which is Award 4.50PG, and it wan only for Win95 Conflict betwwen HD and floppy controller, beside this the system run like a dream, especially under os2 warp. i hope this might help you, you might get a nother view from others, which will help you making your mind, but stick to os2 mate. Moh
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4337,1f4ed2fd6efad231 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4337,public X-Google-Thread: 10cd94,1f4ed2fd6efad231 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cd94,public X-Google-Thread: 11196f,1f4ed2fd6efad231 X-Google-Attributes: gid11196f,public From: mubaslat@melbpc.org.au (Moh Mubaslat) Subject: Re: 486 PCI Chipsets better than Pentium PCI Chipsets? Date: 1995/10/08 Message-ID: <4580hd$q26@wombat.melbpc.org.au> X-Deja-AN: 117205597 references: <44qa5f$rvc@cpcug.org> organization: Melbourne PC User Group Inc, Australia reply-to: mubaslat@melbpc.org.au newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,bit.listserv.os2-l