Reply 20 of 35, by Anonymous Coward
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I grew up with a DTK 486. It used a very interesting "symphony" chipset. Personally I found it to be very fast and stable. My board was ISA only, but it beat the hell out of everyone else's system for memory throughput due to its page-interleave mode. I always wanted to get my hands on a VLB symphony board, but they aren't nearly as common. Symphony must have gone out of business shortly afterwards since they just completely disappeared. It's possible that their VLB boards were terrible and sunk them.
DTK used to produce their own boards and used many Symphony chipsets until about 1993 when there was a huge internal scandal. After that they mainly used OEM "gemlight" boards based on the SiS chipset, which were also pretty good (but in my opinion the PCB quality wasn't as nice as the old DTK boards). I've always been interested in these DTK PCI SiS chipset boards. I've always wanted to play with a PKM 0033S. Too bad they don't seem to have PS/2 support. There appear to be some undocumented jumpers on this board. I wonder if it supports higher FSBs than we know.
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