From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 14 15:03:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA14123 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 15:03:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from persprog.com (persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA14113 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 15:03:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id RAA02714; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:51:40 -0500 Message-Id: <199701142251.RAA02714@persprog.com> Received: from dasa(192.2.2.199) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma002712; Tue Jan 14 17:51:15 1997 Received: from DASA/SpoolDir by dasa.ppi.com (Mercury 1.21); 14 Jan 97 17:51:36 +0500 Received: from SpoolDir by DASA (Mercury 1.30); 14 Jan 97 17:51:17 +0500 From: "David Alderman" Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc To: Steve Passe , hardware@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:51:11 +0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Motherboard & ChipSet pointers? Priority: normal In-reply-to: <199701142207.PAA28417@clem.systemsix.com> References: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:15:11 +0500." <199701141915.OAA11231@persprog.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.50) Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 14 Jan 97 at 15:07, Steve Passe proclaimed: > > EISA should be avoided for SMP/technical reasons (which I have gone into > in detail in the past). I highly recommend the Gigabyte GA586DX if > you want a P5 system. P6 is an unknown to me. Unfortunately that would have been my next question, namely: Wouldn't P6's be better for multiprocessing than Pentiums? Also, which would be more cost-effective, a dual Pentium 166 (since 200's are NOT cost effective) or a single Pentium Pro 200? I think I'll go check some prices... ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose fantasy. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ======================================