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In article <199511191934.OAA26229@hepburn.cs.indiana.edu>, 
bruggema@cs.indiana.edu says...
>
>In article <48gbr4$lt3@mn5.swip.net>,
>Leo Ranta <leo.ranta@mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote:
>>>The TYAN Titan III claims to support 200MHz clockspeeds. It also has 6
>>>SIMM slots and a reasonable price tag of $249 from Motherboards
>
>I too have been considering the Tyan III for the very same reasons
>(expansion capability).  I am concerned, however, that the extra bus
>and memory slots may not be usable if the board designers were not
>extremely careful, since each extra card on a bus adds an electrical
>load that slows the signal propagation on the bus.  I don't know
>enough electrical engineering to guess how far the Titan III pushes
>the typical PC bus specs, but the 5 ISA, 4 PCI, and 6 SIMM slots are
>significantly more than are offered by other boards.  I have also seen
>one unsubstantiated claim that the quality of the Titan III is poor.

Well, since Tyan also makes a dual Pentium board called "Tempest"
where they have 8(Eight!) SIMM slots, I think they know how to
make a board to work with six slots too. Before I started to hunt
a MB to build a system on(for home use) I had never heard of Tyan
actually, but after a short research I decided to go for one anyway.
Building the "ultimate"(?) PC is always a gamble, you never know before
you try and someone must take the first "hit"! :-)

     Leo