[ale] Buying a new motherboard

[Eric]

I've got some cash burning a hole in my wallet and have been hunting
around for a new motherboard to upgrade my 486-66.  I want to go with a
some sort of pentium class chip and motherboard, but Amy has nixed the
Dual Pentium idea...

Anyway, what I've been looking at is ordering a Cyrix 6x86 120mhz (P150+)
CPU, a Tyan Titan III motherboard, and 32 MB of EDO RAM  through one of
two mail order places ASA computers (http://www.asacomputers.com) or
Computer Bay (http://www.computerbay.com).  

I've heard that the Titan III motherboard is fast (Triton Chipset) and
has the architecture to take advantage of the goodies in the Cyrix
chip. It's got 4 pci slots and 5 ISA slots, and 6 SIMM slots.  It is
compatible with the Cyrix 6x86 (from the Cyrix Home page) and I've heard
of people running Linux on this setup.  The 'catches' are that you have
to replace the bios w/ a shareware bios called MR BIOS, and that you
have to have a board rev >=5 and a COAST module >=1.5.

Anyone have any good/bad opinions on this setup before I send my hard earned
money off to who knows where in California?  Has anyone on the list
dealt with these mail order companies before?  They both have about the
best price I could find, and Tyan warranties their motherboards for 2
years.  The price would be about $410 for the 6x86 P150+ and the
motherboard. 

-Eric.