Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:52:12 +0200 From: Joachim =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6mbergson?= <watchman@ludd.luth.se> To: kstewart@urx.com Cc: Christopher Smith <drsmithy@usa.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Ppro motherboards Message-ID: <3B0A60FC.830F71F0@ludd.luth.se> References: <004101c0e2b9$a4cd02a0$0a00a8c0@area51> <3B0A5E24.C0131674@urx.com>
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Aloha!
Kent Stewart wrote:
> 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.
> 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.
>
> 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
As a SMP-system user I would have to say that I agree with Kent -
depending of course what your aim with the system is.
I have a dual Celeron 533 system on the great BP6 mb. As a multi user
server it really rocks. But this system will not give you that amazing
single application that you might want sometimes (Emacs or Unreal
anyone?).
My next system will be a new workstation. That machine will quite
certainly be a Athlon T-bird or Duron combined with lots of memory and a
fast GFX-card. The SMP system will continue to live as a full time
server.
So, yes, a SMP system kan be cool in a geeky sense, but you should think
pretty hard what the target use for the system is before investing.
--
Med vänlig hälsning, Cheers!
Joachim Strömbergson
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