Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 02:10:12 -0700 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>, crb@ChrisBowman.com, dufault@hda.com, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good deal on hardware Message-ID: <3567E3F4.51BDE69D@best.com> References: <199805231806.UAA04502@sos.freebsd.dk>
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Søren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Steve Passe who wrote: > > > > pentium pros are more forgiving as to mixed revs than the pentiums were, > > but it can still be a problem with early silicon. Current pricing at atipa: > > Generally if they are step 7 or later, they will work together, and it > will be real hard to find anything but step 9's, unless its some reused > chips.. (I'd love to get my hands on two old 166Mhz/512K cpu's :)) Easy - check www.pricewatch.com A number of places are selling P6 166/512K for ~= $160. Micro Express were kind enough to check the stepping on the two they shipped me (turned up in two days, no complaints). I'm running them SMP @ 233Mhz, entirely stable (about 5 weeks 24/7). Just ensure that you use a good (read: big) heat sink/fan/compound if overclocking, 'coz the 200Mhz part is rated at > 40watts, and both sources I've seen quote the 166 at the same power consumption... This kind of makes an MMX look like a laptop device in comparison... > > Intel Pentium Pro 200 256K $425 Heat Sink/Fan $13 > > Intel Pentium Pro 180 256K $169 Heat Sink/Fan $13 > > > > The price on the 200 seems a bit steep... Yup, much too high. It's not far off the going rate though.... Try looking up the 1Mb L2 cache version for a belly-laugh sometime... :-) Actually, given that the Intel Providence 440FX board with an *integrated* 2940UW, EtherEtherpress 10/100 and sound can be had for ~= $100, I figure that you could readily build a twin CPU system with 128Mb and it would come out less than the Insight with 32Mb and a single CPU, without too much (or any) bargain hunting, just being a little shrewd. I just did this with a Micron W6-Li board. Assembly took a couple of hours, complete control over components/peripherals. Works great. YMMV. Cheers, AS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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