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- From: lee_b@sn4901.oldham.gpsemi.com (Lee Burley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: L-ISA(?) - 486s motherboards
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- Date: 11 Jan 93 13:08:47 GMT
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- In article <ah.726418285@dolphin.doc.ic.ac.uk>, km3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Konstantinos Moutsopoulos) writes:
- |> I came across an advert for cheap motherboards. The make appears
- |> as L-ISA-486s (UNI). Has any of you seen or used anything like
- |> that ? How much can I trust it ? Some features:
- |> SiS ISA single chip
- |> baby size board
- |> AMI 486 ISA BIOS
- |> 6 ISA slots, 1 Opti local bus slot
- |>
- |> Thanks in advance.
- |> --
- |> Dinos N. Moutsopoulos, Applied Systems Section
- |> s-mail: Dpt of Computing,Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK
- |> Tel. +44 71 5895111 ext. 7522 - fax:+44 71 581 8024 e-mail: km3@doc.ic.ac.uk
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-
- I have also seen this article and have a few questions:
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- 1. What is the Opti Local Bus Slot (VESA? VL-Bus?)
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- 2. I see all the motherboards use 70nS RAM, how can this be??
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- 3. If the choice were between a DX33 and a DX2-50, which is the best buy
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- 4. Would I need a chip cooler (fan) and if so where can I get one in the UK?
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- 5. The prices for the board with no RAM are as follows (in pounds sterling)
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- SX25 244
- DX33 374
- DX2-50 404
- DX2-66 454
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- How do these compare stateside? (I think the exchange rate is about
- $1.55 = 1 pound)
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- 6. Is the 486DX2-66 a reliable part?
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- 7. Is the AMI bios, SIS chipset a good one? I have heard of problems
- with various 486 boards when used with Adaptec 1542s and SBPros,
- both of which I have!
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- 8. Has anyone bought one?
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- Please EMail or post soon as I have money burning a hole in my pocket,
- but don't want to waste it on rubbish!!!
-
- Cheers,
-
- Lee
-