Donna,

I have owned five Tyan boards ....all Tomcat's one through three...and I
have had problems and glitches with every one of them. Tyan is a cutting
edge company that is always improving and trying to get performance
products to market as quickly as possible. Tyan has had problems with AMD
CPUs in the past ...I am writing this post on my bench PC which runs my
last Tomcat III  .... this board  has a problem with sound cards and it
refuses to turn off the Com port .........and this board was a warranty
replacement for another Tomcat that died.

I would recommend that the first time around you get something very stable
and reliable...for a Super Socket Seven board it is hard to beat a FIC
VA-503 +. They are a very good bargain at around 70 dollars.......and a AMD
K6 2 400 will cost you $150......, 503s offer a lot of features, a 1 meg
external cache and the cutting edge Apollo III chipset which makes them
perfect for AMD CPUs.....the Apollo is made by AMD. I have one of these
myself and it has been 100 per cent trouble free...it is one of the best
boards...if not the best ... I have worked with.


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>I have a dinosaur(Presario 2240) and want to gradually (very) upgrade, I
>received an add for this Tyan board.  I would be moving 256 cache, 2.1 G
>hd, 56k modem, floppy, 49 m ram, does this sound like a good deal?  I
>also have the same company offering
>
>AMD K6-III 400 with 3DNow! with 256KB L2 Cache ......$349.99 -
>I don't know about the add. 250 dolllars.  I use Illustrator,Photoshop,
>alot of graphics based programs....sorry I get overwhelmed when I start
>researching this stuff.
>
>Tyan S1590S Trinity 100 AT (Super7) Motherboard ......$95.99
>Donna

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