From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 16:32: 2 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 16:32:00 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heinz.jollem.com (c104187.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.104.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7076537B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 16:31:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ernst@localhost) by heinz.jollem.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f040Twk19085; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 01:29:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ernst) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 01:29:58 +0100 From: Ernst de Haan To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: nathan , "J.Goodleaf" , FreeBSD Questions mailing list Subject: Re: SMP motherboard... which one? Message-ID: <20010104012958.A19074@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> References: <20010103191820.A5153@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from scrappy@hub.org on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:58:18PM -0400 Sender: ernst@heinz.jollem.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yeah, I checked the ASUS site, and the P3C-D looks good, but it uses RIMMs indeed. And there is no version with on-board SCSI. Perhaps the P2B-DS is my best bet. I think it will work with P3s too. And I stand corrected, there is no P3B-D, just a P3C-D. Ernst The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > check into the specs first ... I *thought* that the newer P3 motherboards > by ASUS (and possibly others) moved towards the newer RIMM RAM, whcih are > expensive ... risers are avilable to make use of the older RAM *but* > supposedly aren't the most stable ... haven't tried myself, so am only > going by word of mouth here ... > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Ernst de Haan wrote: > > > > correct me if i'm wrong, but i remember someone saying the p2b-d would take 800mhz > > > PIII's with the latest BIOS flash ?? > > > > Yup. He did. But there is already a P3B-D, and I was thinking about getting > > myself one of those babies. Although the P2B-D can (apparently) handle P3 > > CPU's, the P3B-D would be superior, I think. > > > > > i can't verify this on Asus's site as they still list the original release specs for > > > supported CPU's ( 450mhz ) > > > > -- > > Ernst > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message