From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 16: 0: 2 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 15:59:58 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (SHW2-220.accesscable.net [24.71.145.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A6B37B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:59:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f03NwJ619050; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 19:58:19 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 19:58:18 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Ernst de Haan Cc: nathan , "J.Goodleaf" , FreeBSD Questions mailing list Subject: Re: SMP motherboard... which one? In-Reply-To: <20010103191820.A5153@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG check into the specs first ... I *thought* that the newer P3 motherboards by ASUS (and possibly others) moved towards the newer RIMM RAM, whcih are expensive ... risers are avilable to make use of the older RAM *but* supposedly aren't the most stable ... haven't tried myself, so am only going by word of mouth here ... On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Ernst de Haan wrote: > > correct me if i'm wrong, but i remember someone saying the p2b-d would take 800mhz > > PIII's with the latest BIOS flash ?? > > Yup. He did. But there is already a P3B-D, and I was thinking about getting > myself one of those babies. Although the P2B-D can (apparently) handle P3 > CPU's, the P3B-D would be superior, I think. > > > i can't verify this on Asus's site as they still list the original release specs for > > supported CPU's ( 450mhz ) > > -- > Ernst > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message