munish@ms.uky.edu (Munish Mehra) (09/08/89)
Does anyone have any information or pointers to the following : Reliability and Performance of 386 Motherboards, and other 386 associated hardware. So far I've read that the Micronics motherboard is the best. Experiences with Mail order houses dealing in 386 systems. I have been following the CompuAdd discussion, so we need not go into that again. If I have enough responses I'll summarize the information.
dinda@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Peter Dinda) (09/10/89)
In article <12636@s.ms.uky.edu>, munish@ms.uky.edu (Munish Mehra) writes... >Does anyone have any information or pointers to the following : > >Reliability and Performance of 386 Motherboards, and other 386 >associated hardware. >So far I've read that the Micronics motherboard is the best. > >Experiences with Mail order houses dealing in 386 systems. > >I have been following the CompuAdd discussion, so we need not >go into that again. > >If I have enough responses I'll summarize the information. Well, I've been the proud new owner of a Northgate 386/20SM for all of two days now and I'm very happy with it so far. Northgate makes their own motherboards - thus their almost too good to be true prices. Although you are probably not interested in a complete system, the NG does bring up a good point: interleaved memory versus a RAM cache to provide zero-wait-state performance. Northgate uses the interleave scheme and it seems to work very well if the results of the PC Labs Benchmark I just tried are accurate - the machine ranks only about 20% behind a IBM model 70/25! If you're interested in Northgate, the NG "systems consultant" I have (who seems to be a very knowledgeable gentleman who went to school in Madison (yea)) is John Alstrup. Disclaimer: No relationship to Northgate other than customer (and starving student!) +-----------------------------+---------------------------------------+ : Peter A. Dinda : Microcomputer Information Center at : : dinda@VMS.macc.wisc.edu <*> : Madison Academic Computing Center : : dinda@gumby.cs.wisc.edu : 1210 W. Dayton St., Room 1150A : : MIC@MACC BBS => 608 263 6057: Madison, WI 53704 : : "Microsoft? Ick!" : 608 263 7744 : +-----------------------------+---------------------------------------+