If I had the money I'd get me a P90 Pentium, using the Intel Premiere-II (aka Plato) motherboard, and the number-nine GXE64Pro. Since I don't have that much money I'd opt for a 486 on the new ASUS-486-PCI-SP3-G Board with the saturn-chipset rev. 4. and the PCI-ATI-GUP Mach32 with 2M VRAM. I can use x-window in 16bpp or 8bpp (64K colors or 256 colors) in accelerated mode that way. Since the mach64 is not supported yet I would not recommend buying it for the time being. The current linux-kernels seem to have some problems with this ASUS-486-PCI-SP3-g board with PCI-to-Memory-posting enabled, but the system is still very fast when disabling that feature. If you come across a 486-board which works with all PCI-features enabled, please let me know.
Another fine card since XFree86(tm)-3.1 is the fast and cheap et4000/w32-PCI-card.
So whatever mainboard you buy, you should get one with the NCR53c810-SCSI-chip on board. It is unbeatable in its price/speed.
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