[ale] Asus motherboards

[matt]

At 12:02 AM 8/2/99 EDT, you wrote:
>On Sun, 01 Aug 1999 22:37:12 -0400 matt <myurman at mindspring.com> writes:
>>I personally have a Epox MVP3-G board and got it for $85 or so.  
>
>Where can I get stats on it like I've got for the Asus boards?
>
http://www.epox.com/products/mboard/mvp3gm_1.html
for the one i have

this one has 3 jumpers for cpu speed/voltage and all clearly labeled

http://www.epox.com/products/mboard/mvp3g2_1.html
for the newer one

uses dip switchs now apparently for voltage

>
>What is ata66?
it is a ide specification that allows a maximum of 66MB/sec transfers.
this is only recenlty becoming potentially usfull though. its basically a
extention on the ata33 standard as i understand it.  it is the new
standard comming around so if you're in the market for a new board it may
make sense to get a mother board with support for it.  many (if not most)
newer hard drives are ata66 spec now.  bear in mind that ata66 operation
requires a cable capable of it.  these cables have a extra 40 ground pins
in them and are slowly becoming more easily available.  most setups are
backward compatible with the common ata33 spec though.

>Don't the mentioned Asus boards also have that?
>
it does appear to, but the epox boards tell you the chip names so you can
hunt down and compile modules ahead of time.

>>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
>
>What differences in performance, reliability, etc. does the chipset make?
>
most of what i've heard for this comes from windows web sites.  there have
been reports of instabilities with certain video cards due to it not supplying
the correct voltage to the agp slot.  varous game incompatibilies/bugs also,
but it'd take me a few to dig up links on this.  i like the fact that i do
not have to patch my kernel for support of the VIA chipset were as you do for
the Ali chipsets.