From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 5:40: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBFC337B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 05:40:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AE2438E0258; Tue, 22 May 2001 05:40:04 -0700 Message-ID: <3B0A5E24.C0131674@urx.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 05:40:04 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Ppro motherboards References: <004101c0e2b9$a4cd02a0$0a00a8c0@area51> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Smith wrote: > > I've always wanted to have an SMP system and having noticed recently a > lot of Ppro/200s (some with 512k cache) going on ebay for around the > $50US mark, I'm seriously considering making myself up an SMP FreeBSD > Box. > > Anyway, one of the things holding me back is the potential cost of > fitting out a Dual PPro board with 128MB+ of EDO SIMMs. I figured > there's probably quite a few guys on these lists who have dealt with > this sort of hardware in the past, so I was wondering if anyone knows: > > Were there any Ppro boards made that supported SDRAM (ie DIMMs) ? > I believe riser cards are available to convert Socket 8 CPUs to Slot 1 - > does anyone have any experience with them ? If you are looking at producing a more powerfull computer, I think you are going about it in the wrong way. I have an Athlon 900 system and a dual 866 coppermine system. The Athlon runs about 10% slower than the dual 866's and cost much less. The expected ratio in multiprocessor systems used to be 1.8 and the dual 866's really miss that mark. The memory in a old PPro box has to be a severe limitation. I have a Celeron 433 that runs about 40% slower than a P-III 400. It used to run 50% slower, which just turns out to be the ratio 100MHz memory vs 66MHz memory, and then I replaced the PC-66 memory with PC-100 and it ran about 15% faster. I don't think an old 66MHz FSB system is a good deal at any price. You could purchase a fairly good AMD Durlon(?) for the price you are going to spend of the two PPros and have a much more effective system. Kent > > Cheers, > CS > > -- > "I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's > too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that > 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were > you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" --Mike > Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message