Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:12:54 -0800 From: "Alan S." Subject: Re: Computer Upgrade To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Message-id: <3A772E56.2D89D1B5@cornell.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <041001c08a70$009726d0$91a63bc6 AT dbcooper> Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com I have two platforms running these Tyan Trinity 1590S 100AT MBs, both loaded with add-on cards. This MB is a really excellent choice because of the slot configuration: 1xAGP, 3xPCI, 1xPCI/ISAshared, 3xISA, but it's very easy to overload and OVERHEAT the PC as a consequence; I've added 5 extra chassis, slot and drive cooler fans to one very full PC! For those who really want to make "full use" of UDMA66 drives, or use more than four EIDE devices, I have had good experiences using the "Promise Ultra ATA/66" add-on controller cards with this MB. One word of caution: There are two different versions of this MB: The final version will run AMD-K6-2, et al, CPUs up to 550MHz, but the earlier version is limited to 450MHZ [maybe 500MHZ, I forget]. This limitation CAN NOT be fixed with a BIOS upgrade. Distinguishing marks are silk screened onto the MB; check the Tyan website. Alan S. 1-30-2001 Patrick Moran wrote: > Several months ago, maybe even a year or more, I did research on > mother boards and since I have a full height very heavy duty > expensive tower case, I wanted a board that would work in this > case. It had to have a lot of slots for cards and have excellent > speed and capabilities. I settled on the Tyan Trinity 100AT S1590s. > To see the specs on this great board, check out this URL: > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/trinity100at.html