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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Path: sparky!uunet!maxed!ed
- From: ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)
- Subject: Re: Looking for 486-50 EISA motherboard for Dell SVR4
- Message-ID: <By1E73.C6p@maxed.amg.com>
- Organization: American Micro Group, Ft. Lee NJ
- References: <1992Nov16.142156.765@hp1.holl.com> <26733@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:52:14 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <26733@optima.cs.arizona.edu> dsiegel@optima.UUCP (Dave Siegel) writes:
- >From article <1992Nov16.142156.765@hp1.holl.com>, by dave@hp1.holl.com (David Vrona):
- >> I'm in the process of putting together a new system based on Dell SVR4 and I
- >> want to explore my motherboard options.
- >> I want to go with a fast EISA system. I'm sure I would be safe with a
- >> Mylex, Micronics, or AMI motherboard but I would like to hear from anyone that
- >> has had success (or failure) with other brands as well.
- >
- >
- >I'm running Dell 2.2 on a 486-50 EISA from VEGA (purchased from The Essence
- >Group, Computer Shopper). I believe the Motherboard's price is currently
- >$1050 or so, many hundreds of dollars below a micronics. It uses the SIS
- >chipset.
- >
- >performance is great. only regret is that it only allows 32 MB's RAM on the
- >Motherboard, so I'm topped out on it.
- >
- >-dave
-
- Why do you think performance is great? Is that compared to other
- comparable boards?
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- American Micro Group, Inc. 201-944-3293
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