From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 5:52:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C01D37B42C for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 05:52:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from watchman@ludd.luth.se) Received: from d1o907.telia.com (d1o907.telia.com [195.252.38.241]) by mailc.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4MCqJx16592; Tue, 22 May 2001 14:52:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ludd.luth.se (h55n1fls21o907.telia.com [212.181.140.55]) by d1o907.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01846; Tue, 22 May 2001 14:52:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3B0A60FC.830F71F0@ludd.luth.se> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:52:12 +0200 From: Joachim =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6mbergson?= Organization: Acne X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kstewart@urx.com Cc: Christopher Smith , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Ppro motherboards References: <004101c0e2b9$a4cd02a0$0a00a8c0@area51> <3B0A5E24.C0131674@urx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 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 ============================================================================ Joachim Strömbergson - ASIC designer, nice to *cute* animals. snail: phone: mail & web: Sävenäsgatan 5A +46 31 - 27 98 47 watchman@ludd.luth.se 416 72 Göteborg +46 733 75 97 02 www.ludd.luth.se/~watchman ============================================================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message