Re: What's wrong with OPTi chipsets?

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From: Paul A. Lane
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 19:33

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In <1993Jan7.174610.18631@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rhh2h@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Ron Henderson) writes:

>Why is it that most 386 buyers specify that they do *not* want 
>motherboards with the Opti chipset? I may be in the market for a
>386/40 mb, and want to be informed.

I don't know the reason why, but a recent PC Sources test of 486DX2/66
machines had the Opti-based machines left in the dust by other mother-
boards. The Micronics Voyager-based systems were the top performers.
PC Sources, 1/93.

Paul

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