Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 12:38:28 -0400 (EDT) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> To: drsmithy@usa.net (Christopher Smith) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Ppro motherboards Message-ID: <200105221638.MAA01376@scarlet.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <004401c0e2bd$9cf71a30$0a00a8c0@area51> from Christopher Smith at "May 22, 2001 10:49:15 pm"
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Which old dual Celeron board was it? I am using the Abit BP6 and it has
been spectacular. It has run {Free|Open|Net}BSD and three different Linux
Distros with no problems. Although, it will not run Windows 98SE at all.
Ian
As told by, Christopher Smith
> > > 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.
>
> Nah, I just want a box with two CPUs :).
>
> My main box now is a Celeron/450 with 256MB and 99% of the time it's
> more than fast enough - a Dual PPro/200 setup certainly isn't going to
> be any *slower*.
>
> > 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.
>
> It's not the speed that concerns me as much as the cost of 72pin SIMMs.
>
> > 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.
>
> Price-wise I doubt it (I'm in Australia and I've got some old stuff I'd
> be just migrating into it as I upgrade my other machines - like RAM -
> that would otherwise just be left sitting) and anyway, all I really want
> is an SMP system just to say I have one :D.
>
> Yes, I've considered the old dual celeron boards. No, I'm not
> interested - I had a friend with one of them and he had nothing but
> grief with it.
>
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