At 01:53 02/23/01, Bob Castorf wrote:
>I am getting ready to build a dual Pentium III system...
>
>The ABIT VP6 motherboard looks like a good candidate for me,
>but I have serious concerns over the VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset.
>Several articles I've read indicate that this chipset does not
>support LINUX very well. I would like to hear about the experiences
>(good or bad) of anyone who has run LINUX on this VIA chipset.
>
>The Intel 815 chipset seems to be my ideal choice, but I'm having
>trouble locating a motherboard with i815 and dual Pentium III
>support.  Does anyone know of such a board?


Hi Bob

Here's a review of two dual CPU boards by Dr. Tom Pabst.

He writes "there are two different chipsets on the market for the
socket 370 platform supporting the operation of two processors:
These include the Intel 815E (initially not intended for dual
operation and limited to 512 MB RAM) and the VIA Apollo Pro 133A
  - also known as VIA 694XDP....We have thoroughly examined the
Acorp 6A815D, the first dual board to be equipped with the Intel
815E, as well as the Asus CUV4X-D that works with VIA 694XDP."

Although most of the tests were conducted under Windows 2000 Pro,
Tom did do a compilation of the Suse Linux 6.4 kernel and found
that the board with the Intel chipset took longer than the board
with the VIA chipset. See the following for the whole review:
http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q1/010201/index.html

Regards,
Bill

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