On 12/15/02 20:24, Bob Raymond wrote:
Those are some rather non-traditional requirements you have there. Generally speaking anything over 2GB is a server board, not a desktop board, and USB ports aren't something you find on server boards, at least not in high numbers. Then again, why do you need 6 onboard USB ports? USB muliplexors are relatively cheap. At any rate, here are the current Tyan offerings for AMD chips:On Monday 16 December 2002 04:16 am, Net Llama! wrote:Could you name a decent Athlon option from either one that supports stuff like PC3200 DDR, IDE RAID, a good 4 GB of RAM, and 6 USB 2.0 ports? I actually think it's just EPoX's 8K5A3+ that's a lemon board, though I did have the problem that my reset button didn't work with the 8KTA3Pro once I upgraded from Radeon VE to Radeon 8500On 12/15/02 18:42, Bob Raymond wrote: > On Monday 16 December 2002 02:31 am, Net Llama! wrote: >> My experiences with Asus haven't been all that stellar. They tend to >> cut corners with specs which results in unreliable hardware when pushed >> to its limits. Also SiS makes hardware that is notiriously incompatible >> with Linux. > > I really don't know of a good mb manufacturer to turn to- I have one > complaint with my EPoX board, and that's with its shutdown/reboot > abilities- I have to shut off the power supply when rebooting, otherwise > the USB ports don't initialize.I've had very good experiences with both Tyan & Intel for mobos.
http://tyan.com/products/html/athlon.html
Needless to say, Intel doesn't make boards for AMD products.
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