[ale] Asus motherboards

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at bellsouth.net
Sun Aug 1 22:51:47 EDT 1999


s/anything/anyone/

Geez, I'm tired - job-hunting'll make you punchy...

- Jeff

Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> Does anything know when the "Slot 8" motherboards are going to start appearing?  I
> think I will probably be holding out for the K7.
>
> - Jeff
>
> matt wrote:
>
> > At 05:32 PM 8/1/99 EDT, you wrote:
> > >On Sun, 01 Aug 1999 00:15:05 -0400 matt <myurman at mindspring.com> writes:
> > >>my experiance has been they work fine with linux.  however, i can't
> > >>recommend them.  they can only cache 128mb of ram and i find that
> > >unacceptable.
> > >
> > >Why so? I will be extremely happy if I can get even 128M RAM. (This
> > >system has 24)
> > its a matter of taste and personal preference.  i am running with 192MB of ram
> > and might soon go for the upgrade to 256MB.  ram is reasonably cheap these
> > days
> > and historically seems to get cheaper. i like to leave room for expansion.
> > >
> > >>a better choice might be a mother board based on the VIA MVP3 chipset
> > >since
> > >>they usually can cache 256mb or more of ram and the chipsets seem to be
> > >a little
> > >>less buggy and better supported.
> > >
> > >Do you have any suggestions? (I want one that costs $90 or less and has
> > >all the features that the described P5A and P5A-B had, with the exception
> > >of maybe one more ISA instead of a PCI.)
> > >
> > I personally have a Epox MVP3-G board and got it for $85 or so.  they recently
> > released a newer one that is quite similar except it has ata66 support.  i
> > partially bought this board for its hardware monitoring features.  its kinda
> > fun to know how fast all my fans are spinning sometimes ;-) as Glenn mentioned
> > a dfi board seems like a ok deal and is available locally in your price
> > range.  they also seem to use the VIA chipset.  the kernel has support for
> > it already
> > and it seems to work fine for me.
> >
> > btw - i have nothing against asus boards, i think they're quite fine, but
> > i don't think the chipset on those to is particularly good






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