CompuServe Messages

John… We're in the process of building/buying a P133 which will be our PVR editing machine (rendering will be done on an SGI), and unfortunately we haven't found many mobos that offer the necessary CPU clearance. Two contemporary mobos that look like they will work just fine are the OEM:ZAPPA 505 offered by Micromax and the TYAN TITAN II by Tyan. In both cases they use the Triton chipset/Award BIOS, and have on-board EIDE but no I/O… so you have to use a conventional I/O card for Serial/Parallel/FDD. A pain, but it's worked well for 20 years <G> so I guess it's OK. I spoke to TYAN and they noted that they were coming out with a new board in October that would include the on-board I/O but they didn't send me the schematic of that one (not finished). The TYAN TITAN II is supposedly only 3 months old. BTW, I heard that same suggestion about the risers… that to me would be a last resort as I don't like more connections than are really necessary, not to mention where the ports on the end of the card might wind up in your PC housing. \\\. ========================= >-==<MIKE(>=– >-==*- /