🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Jyrki Tuomi wrote:

> In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.951113105050.20150A-100000@howard> you write:
> >...
> >I am waiting until January-to-March in order to purchase a new Pentium
> >motherboard with burst cache and all the other acoutrements - PLUS the
> >fact that by then, there will be more versatile boards that can handle
> >from 90 to 150 or 180 Mhz, leaving me the option of further relatively
> 
> Asus, Supermicro, Tyan and probably a number of other motherboard makers
> have now available Pentium/PCI mboards, which have:
>  - 75MHz-200MHz CPU
>  - 256KB-512KB asynchronous cache, or 256KB-512KB pipeline burst cache
>  - PCI EIDE, FDD, 2*16550, 1*ECP/EPP, IrDA
>  - 4-6 72-pin SIMM sockets
> 
> I've seen them sold as low as $250 (with 256KB Pipeline Burst). $260-$270
> seems to be a fairly common price.  Is this steep or what specific
> versatility do you have in mind?
[...]

My price basis thus far has been from looking through Computer Shopper.  
The prices you list here are better than any I saw in the latest Computer 
Shopper.  These prices are not too steep from my standpoint.  I am 
suprized to see boards that claim to support 200Mhz Pentiums 
however...simply because a cover-to-cover look through several other mags 
in addition to CS have only shown me boards that support 180MHz, top 
end (the cheapest of which was around $290 to $325, depending on 
configuration).  

Where did you see these boards advertised?  I'd like to take a look at 
their specs and prices myself (not that I disbelieve you, only because I 
want more details:  board maker, chipset, setup options, etc).

poneil@genetics.utah.edu