Not exactly what you were asking for, but I thought I'd add that I have a
SOYO Socket 7 motherboard which uses the ETEQ chipset. I can't find much
documentation on it anywhere, but I've never had a problem with it. It
works spectacularly. Mine supports PC100 SDRAM, AGP2x, and runs an AMD
300MHz CPU on a 100MHz FSB. It was definitely cheaper than Intel
solutions (that's why I bought it) and it has turned out to work great in
every OS I've tried (with the sole exception of Windows 98). It runs
NT 4.0, Windows 95, Linux, and BeOS. I didn't try very hard to track down
my Win98 problem; that may or may not be related to the motherboard. With
any other OS, I didn't have to jump through any hoops at all to get things
to work.
-Matt Stegman
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On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Pj wrote:
> I've just been having this discussion with some friends. I have a Tyan
> 1590s with a VIA chipset. I have P-100 RAM and a K2-500CPU. It's hot; it's
> fast; it'a a slot 7 board. Whether or not I can make a stable Linux system
> out of it using my hardware remains to be seen. A local fellow builds Linux
> networks. He favors BX boards and Intel P3 chips.
>
> If I had the money to do this over again, I would talk to Civileme, and
> Dave and Brian, and Ramon and I would buy exactly what they recommended-
> from the dealers they recommend. I would close my ears to all other
> suggestions. Maybe then I would have a stable system instead of another
> linux mess. Be warned. Windows is a toy compared to Linux.
>
> Pj
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> At 02:46 PM 6/30/00 MYT, you wrote:
> >Hi.
> >How is the performance of VIA chipset based MOBO, compared to Intel based.
> >Lets say, BX vs VIA, or i810 vs VIA ?
> >
> >Which one faster ?
> >
> >-lz
> >
> >
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