I'm in the market for a motherboard and CPU, and have been looking hard
at the Intel Pentium motherboard with P133 Processor, 3/4 PCI, 4 ISA,
ZIF, 4 EDO Slots, Flash AMI Bios, 2 Serial, 1 Parallel, E-IDE 4, 256/512
Write Back cache. I plan on buying 32 MB of RAM, with RAM at $10.00 per
MB and all. I want to be able to run Windows NT 4.0 and Linux 2.x, and
Sun's Solaris. However I've been looking at these Cyrix and AMD
motherboard-processor combinations and would like an honest opinion
about the experiences that anyone has had on running software on these
machine and compatibility. I would like to have information on the
following:
1) Compatibility with the software: Windows NT, Linux 2.x, Windows 95,
Solaris x86.
2) Relative speed with Pentium. Please qualify which Pentium.
3) Does anyone know anything about the healt of AMD/NexGen and Cyrix? I
don't want to purchase a motherboard from a company that's going to
abandon the market soon, or is not healthy.
4) Which is a better choice--the AMD/NexGen or the Cyrix 6x86?
5) Compatibility with various peripherals--SCSI, Ethernet, and video
adapters, etc.
Please respond by email. I appreciate all responses.
Bruce