chuck finnigan wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone could confirm/deny rumors that motherboards
> with Intel's HX chipset (AT) are very hard to find at this time.

Intel has discontinued the HX chipset making boards carrying that chipset
perhaps not hard to find but they're getting scarce.

> We are
> about to put out a hardware bid for new workstations for our school
> district and have had good luck with the HX chipset.

Best chipset there was, specially for servers.

> I did check out TC Computers website and most brands had moved to the
> TX.  Tyan was the one exception.
>
> Any recommendations would also be appreciated for reasonably priced,
> reliable boards that you've had experience with.

You can still get the Abit IT5H, and boards carrying the VIA Apollo or VP2
are said to be the equivalent toi the HX chipset, able to cache up to 512Mb
of RAM.

HTH

Jose


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