On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Frank Martini wrote:
> I'm planning an SMP system. Gonna buy everything from the ground up. Step
> one, chosing a motherboard. I've found a Tiger ATX Dual Slot 1 and a Pine
> Dual Slot 1 BX. Does anyone have any experience with either? Any suggestions
> for a killer system? Most motherboards seem to be under $200, so at this
> price, $$$ is not the issue. I'd say ease of setup, out-of-the-box RedHat
> support and reliability outweigh speed (just a bit). Any recommendations?
I've had very good experiences using Tyan boards in the past and my latest is
an S1832 Tiger 100 Dual Slot 1 board with two idential s-Spec Pentium II-400s,
three sticks of 128M Corsair SDRAM and a 22G IBM UDMA drive.
The only thing that seems to be notable about Tyan is that they have been
observed to be sensitive to poor quality RAM. So you might wish to buy
premium RAM or make sure you can swap/return the RAM you buy if it doesn't
play well with you Tyan motherboard.
I've used a couple of their Socket7 based S1571 Titan Turbo AT-2 boards in the
past as well. Very good boards for their time.
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