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- From: chuckc@fc.hp.com (Chuck Cairns)
- Subject: Re: Information of 486 motherboard?
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 06:52:04 GMT
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- Hmmm,
-
- Your perfect PC and mine align well. I'm not too concerned about the
- P24. I do want FAST-SCSI-II though. UltraStor makes a VL-bus SCSI-II
- controller the 34F. I'm not sure that I need EISA if I have a VL bus
- SCSI controller since I can put a large number of fast disks on it.
-
- Some notes:
-
- Cornell does sell a combo EISA/VL system. It uses a motherboard from
- a company called "Joindata". I can't find them on the CD-rom database
- of Computer Select ... don't know anything about them. Micronics also
- has the motherboard used in the Gateway 2K VL-bus systems. You can get it
- (not quickly perhaps) from other Micronics suppliers. Also Diamond has a new
- VL-bus MB. Young micro (sp?) will have a combo EISA/VL soon in their ELISA
- series. I assume that AMI is also working on it.
-
- So .... My perfect system ...
-
- 1) MB with 2VL + 6 EISA + built in 2 serial + parallel + IDE + floppy
- with 256 KB of fast! write-back Cache ... needed for 50MHZ and P24.
- Go for the 486DX2-66 for now.
- ~$1200
- 3) Room for up to 128 Megabytes - start with 16 Meg ( :-) )
- ~$800 (this week)
- 4) EISA FAST-SCSI-II controller (Adaptec 1742 or Ultrastor 24F)
- ~$450
- 5) Maxstor MXT520 6200 RPM drive ~3 to 4 megabytes/sec. (or 2 :-) )
- ~$1200.
- 6) #9 VL-bus graphics card with 2Meg VRAM and S3 86C928 chip ~48Meg Winmarks!
- ~$500.
- (I'm guessing form what I've read and heard) with feature connector unlike ATI
- 7) Nanao 560i 17" monitor. MPR-II low emission. Nice! from what I read.
- ~$1500 (I think)
- 8) NEC CDR-74 external double-speed CD drive.
- ~$500
- 9) Turtle Beach Multisound card.
- ~$550 (may drop more due to the Gravis ultrasound and new DSP cards)
- 10) HP or Archive - SCSI DAT tape backup
- ~$1300
- 11) 16-bit video capture card with compression. ???
- ~$2000
- 12) PC Power and Cooling PS and Case (tower ~300 Watts, 2 or 3 fans)
- ~150
- 13) Logitec BUS 3 button mouse.
- ~75
- 14) Windows NT
- ~$200 (who knows ?)
-
- Ouch, I'm afraid to add it all up ! ... Ouch !
-
- I'm going to work in the direction of the VL-EISA and see where I get!
- Things are changing rapidly, especially with Comdx next week !
-
- Cheers,
- Chuck
-
- chuckc@fc.hp.com
- #STD Disclaimer
- These are only MY OPINIONS and not the opinions or policy of HP.
-