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In article <3jq3ui$sra@styx.uwa.edu.au>,
David B. Koong <dkoong@tartarus.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>Lars Vagle (vagle@hsr.no) wrote:
>: >I'd like to know if there are any known problems with the ASUS
>: >PCI/I-P54SP4 (SiS chipset). 
>
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>i am currently running a p90 on this p54sp4 ....and i find interms of
>benchmarks etc.... it is definitely comparable (maybe even slightly
>better than the intel board.... i say this because of the ability to
>clock the PCI bus to 40 mhz for 90mhz p5 and 44 mhz for 100mhz
>p5...there is a bios option)....
>
>somme general benchmarks....
>3dbench gave me 91fps... (with diamond stealth 64 dram)
>norton sysinfo 8 or 9 ....iidentical score with intel boards...
>
>so... basically i have had no problems whatsoever....
>the bios has some useful options like switching floppy drive
>order...i.e. make a to b.... and viceversa...flexible..
>
>(i hear there is a new p55tp4!!!...with triton chipset!!! wait for
>that!!! i might change mine to that a little later !)
>

We did some limited testing of the p54sp4 with similar results.

The one problem with the p54sp4 board may be _availaability_.  I have 
information from two different distributors that, while there are still 
some of the boards in the distribution channel, the model has been 
discontinued by ASUS.  The "replacement" is likely to be the p55tp4.

One local clone shop has a sample of the p55tp4 in the basic SRAM -- DRAM 
configuration, and found in preliminary tests that it was somewhat faster 
than the p54sp4.  I hope to have some more specific data on this early 
next week.

						Roger Wallace