From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 16 20:27:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA09658 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (taob@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca [207.181.89.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA09650 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from taob@localhost) by tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA02223; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 23:27:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 23:27:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: Mike Smith cc: FREEBSD-CHAT-L Subject: Re: SMP motherboard advice... In-Reply-To: <199709170004.JAA00595@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > > Most of the SMP guys will tell you that a dual P5 is a waste of time. As opposed to what? Dual PPros or PII's? Those are still on the pricey side. What specific disadvantages are there to dual P5's? Nowhere near 2x performance? Current motherboards not having enough L2 cache for 2x200-MHz CPU's? > If you're planning on playing games on the box, SMP is a waste of > time. You want the fastest uniprocessor machine your budget will > support, the most evil video card you can get, and a BIG MONITOR! I'll have the evil video cards and a big monitor, but I also want to diddle around with FreeBSD-SMP. ;-) I figure the addition of a Voodoo 3D accelerator alone will do wonders for my game playing experience. :) -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"