From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 9:39: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B06EA37B42C for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 09:39:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust140.tnt6.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.10.187.140]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA20089; Tue, 22 May 2001 09:38:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA01376; Tue, 22 May 2001 12:38:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Message-Id: <200105221638.MAA01376@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: Dual Ppro motherboards In-Reply-To: <004401c0e2bd$9cf71a30$0a00a8c0@area51> from Christopher Smith at "May 22, 2001 10:49:15 pm" To: drsmithy@usa.net (Christopher Smith) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 12:38:28 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 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 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. > > -- > "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 > -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message