[ale] Asus motherboards

[Jeff Hubbs]

Does anything know when the "Slot 8" motherboards are going to start appearing?  I
think I will probably be holding out for the K7.

- Jeff

matt wrote:

> At 05:32 PM 8/1/99 EDT, you wrote:
> >On Sun, 01 Aug 1999 00:15:05 -0400 matt <myurman at mindspring.com> writes:
> >>my experiance has been they work fine with linux.  however, i can't
> >>recommend them.  they can only cache 128mb of ram and i find that
> >unacceptable.
> >
> >Why so? I will be extremely happy if I can get even 128M RAM. (This
> >system has 24)
> its a matter of taste and personal preference.  i am running with 192MB of ram
> and might soon go for the upgrade to 256MB.  ram is reasonably cheap these
> days
> and historically seems to get cheaper. i like to leave room for expansion.
> >
> >>a better choice might be a mother board based on the VIA MVP3 chipset
> >since
> >>they usually can cache 256mb or more of ram and the chipsets seem to be
> >a little
> >>less buggy and better supported.
> >
> >Do you have any suggestions? (I want one that costs $90 or less and has
> >all the features that the described P5A and P5A-B had, with the exception
> >of maybe one more ISA instead of a PCI.)
> >
> I personally have a Epox MVP3-G board and got it for $85 or so.  they recently
> released a newer one that is quite similar except it has ata66 support.  i
> partially bought this board for its hardware monitoring features.  its kinda
> fun to know how fast all my fans are spinning sometimes ;-) as Glenn mentioned
> a dfi board seems like a ok deal and is available locally in your price
> range.  they also seem to use the VIA chipset.  the kernel has support for
> it already
> and it seems to work fine for me.
>
> btw - i have nothing against asus boards, i think they're quite fine, but
> i don't think the chipset on those to is particularly good