Apparently it affects all boards that the Intel 840 chipset.
Yeah, it does suck that the 370DLx boards dont have AGP, but for a server
you can still find old PCI video cards.
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 12:31:58 -0400, Essenz Consulting wrote:
> > I was told by several of my distributors that all motherboards based off
> > of the Intel 840 chipset are being discontinued. That means the Supermicro
> > PIIDM3 and PIIIDME, and any other 840 board.
>
> Are you sure they don't just mean any 840 board that uses SDRAM?
>
> It looks like Supermicro has a RAMBUS 840 board on their web page now:
>
> http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/840/PIIIDR3a.htm
>
> > Supermicro has two new boards, 370DL3 and 370DLE. Identical in specs to
> > the 840 boards, but using some kind of "ServerWork LE" chipset. However, I
> > have also been hearing bad news about these boards as well.
>
> Not quite identical. They don't have AGP, which makes it difficult to
> get graphics boards. (If you want to use it for a workstation. Most
> graphics boards don't come in plain PCI anymore.)
>
> Ken
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