re asante ethernet adapter for lciii math chip in article c syk js ie utoronto ca andy ie utoronto ca andy sun writes hi i have been told by a local sales that asante has come out with this lciii pds ethernet adapter with an optional socket on the board my question is will the fpu performance degrade will i put the on the pds card socket instead of on the motherboard itself intuitively the math co processor should always be placed close to the cpu but i am not sure how good apple s so called processor direct slot is when it comes to throughout does anyone know the answer to this or have any experience with the asante lciii ethernet adapter thanks in advance andy andy sun andy ie utoronto ca taddle creek road toronto computing coordinator ontario canada m s a department of industrial engineering phone university of toronto fax i believe the fpu on the lciii is always supposed to go on the logic board not in the pds board i have heard of crashing problems with pds based fpus on the lciii asante may have fixed them but why bother why bother building an lciii card with an fpu anyway the extra circuitry gives the card one more chance to fail i say fpu on main logic board in socket ethernet alone on pds card in slot mark
