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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (85067)	7/7/1999 6:56:00 PM
From: Gary Kao	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Any chance this could be a Via-NSM chipset? Recent agreements between these two seem ominous for Intel. Gary >If Compaq is building a Celeron-based server with this many devices and this much memory, they sure wouldn't be using Intel chipsets. That's why I want to find out what chipset they're using. Tenchusatsu

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (85067)	7/7/1999 7:01:00 PM
From: John Walliker	Respond to of 186894

Tenchusatsu, Most motherboards based on Intel chipsets feature five PCI slots, not six. Remember that the article said Compaq's server will have five Ethernet cards, not jacks. With all five slots gone, where does that SCSI card go? Supermicro make several motherboards with 5 PCI slots, AGP slot and on-board Ultra 2 SCSI. The P6DBU uses the 440BX chipset and supports 1Gbyte registered DRAM, while the P6DGU uses the 440GX chipset and supports 2 Gbyte ram. These are both dual processor motherboards, but I believe they will work with a single Celeron. John

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (85067)	7/7/1999 7:07:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Ten, <With all five slots gone, where does that SCSI card go?> <There are only two Intel chipsets currently being manufactured that support more than 512MB> Kid, slow down. Example: asus.com.tw (440BX, 6 PCI, 1GB DRAM) <why would anyone want to put six bandwidth-hungry PCI cards onto one PCI bus?> Each 100mbit Ethernet is only 10MB/s, times 6 = 60MBytes/s, which is about half of PCI-33 bandwidth. Actually the whole thing will be limited by SCSI subsystem. You should know better the infrastructure your company sells into.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (85067)	7/8/1999 12:14:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 186894

Ten, OK, 810 supports at most five PCI slots and 512MB. So they use a BX which will do 1GB. The article writers ability to differentiate ports/cards/slots may be in question. Here's a standard motherboard that supports 8 IDE hard drives using a BX chipset. tccomputers.com Cheers, Eric