Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!att!cbnewsk!dyson From: dyson@cbnewsk.att.com (john.s.dyson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: 386-33mhz Motherboards (ADVICE) -- ANSWER Summary: Motherboards (AMI) Message-ID: <1991Mar30.035529.18959@cbnewsk.att.com> Date: 30 Mar 91 03:55:29 GMT References: <1991Mar30.011407.25722@amd.com> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 27 In article <1991Mar30.011407.25722@amd.com>, phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes: > In article deen@romulus.rutgers.edu (Cinnamon Raisin) writes: > | AMI MARK IV motherboard-33mhz w/8 megs(70ns SIMMs) > | 64k Cache $1600. > > I thought motherboards were around $400. (of course, we get good prices > on the 80386) Another $400 for 8 megs of memory and it looks like > you're paying $800 for the 80386. > > Hey, I could probably scrape up an 80386 for you for only $750. :-) > I strongly suggest that one be very conservative in the selection of an AT/386 motherboard. The cost of a very good, tested, reliable motherboard (AMI, Mylex, etc) vs. a much less well known board possibly not tested with UNIX is only a small part of the cost of a system. I have seen numerous incompatibilities, from subtile keyboard interactions with UNIX to Windows 3.0 not working. I have built (or assisted in the selection of MB's) several systems and strongly believe that the AMI boards are of top quality. Spend a few hundred bucks more to get something that might give you quite a few less headaches. I do not want to debug someone elses BIOS bugs or put up with problems with software or hardware other than the ones that I create. John Dyson dyson@inuxy.att.com