Re: 66mhz/64 bit pci motherboards?

[Danny Sauer <sauer@cloudmaster.com>]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 02:12:25PM -0600, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:48:03AM -0600, Danny Sauer wrote:
> > I'm trying to find a decent motherboard for a linux system that provides
> > 66 MHz 64bit PCI slots, not just the crappy 33MHz versions.  I'm looking
> > at the Tiger MPX board (the S2466) as a dual athlon solution - do any of
> > you happen to have experience with that board, or with any of the boards
> > that use the serverworks chipsets?
> 
> The Tiger sucks.  Avoid it.
> 
> The Tyan Thunder isn't bad, but be aware that there are several bugs
> in the AMD MP chipset.  The latest kernels seem to work around at
> least most of them pretty well though.

So, the 760 MPX is worse than the 760 MP?  I thought that the MPX was
supposed to fix problems with the original MP...

> The Asus (I forget the model right now) dual Athlon board is probably
> your best bet.

The only dual proc Asus board I could find uses 5 volt, and thus 33MHz,
for the 64 bit PCI slots.

> One of these years I need to try MSI's dual board...

Could you get to that this week?  I kinda need to know pretty soon. ;)

Eh, back to google.  Whee.  Maybe we should wait for the quad sledgehammer
boards due out early next year...

--Danny, stoked that he finally found the perfect water level and
time setting for his Maruchan Instant Lunch (ramen noodles) in the
styrofoam cup.

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