64bit/66MHz PCI mobos (Intel STL2, Asus CUR-DLS)

[Steve Gaudet]

Hello Chris Black,

> On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:13:33PM +0200, Steffen Persvold wrote:
> > Chris Black wrote:
> > > 
> > > We have been looking into motherboards that provide 64-bit 66MHz
> > > PCI slots and haven't had much luck. We are now evaluating the
> [stuff deleted]
> > 
> > The SuperMicro (http://www.supermicro.com) 370DE{6,R} cards are
> actually
> > quite nice. They both have onboard SCSI-3. 
> > 
> > The SuperMicro 370DL{3,E,R} are a cheaper variant (LE chipset) and
> the
> > 370DLE is without SCSI.
> > 
> > I haven't checked too much, but I believe all of these boards are
> > cheaper than both the Intel and the ASUS boards.


> Have you or anyone used the onboard IDE on these motherboards? 
> The person working with the Intel serverworks board seems to be 
> having trouble getting IDE working in ultradma mode. Also, do 
> any of these boards have onboard video/ethernet?

>From a cost point if you can use IDE it will save you at least $150.00+ per 
system.  There are only two motherboards that I know of that offer video, dual 
ethernet and ATA100 they are Tyan's 2515, and GigaByte's new GA-6VXDR7.

The Tyan had some problems(what else is new) but a new firmware release should 
of fixed them.  The GigaByte GA-6VXDR7 has the VIA Apollo chipset and from what 
we've seen about 6~8% slower...but about $90.00 cheaper that Tyan's 2515.

Cheers,

Steve Gaudet
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