From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Nov 27 13:40:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-smp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA14448 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 13:40:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from brimstone.gage.com (brimstone.gage.com [205.217.2.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA14443 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 13:40:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by brimstone.gage.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) id PAA24914; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:40:20 -0600 (CST) Received: from octopus.gage.com(158.60.57.50) by brimstone.gage.com via smap (V2.0beta) id xma024912; Wed, 27 Nov 96 15:40:00 -0600 Received: from squid.gage.com (squid [158.60.57.101]) by octopus.gage.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA05666; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:30:43 -0600 (CST) Received: from schemer by squid.gage.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA22429; Wed, 27 Nov 96 15:30:42 -0600 Message-Id: <9611272130.AA22429@squid.gage.com> Received: by schemer.gage.com (NX5.67g/NX3.0X) id AA00550; Wed, 27 Nov 96 15:30:42 -0600 Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.0 v146.2) In-Reply-To: <9611272118.AA16802@longs.colorado.cirrus.com> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.3) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.146.2) From: Ben Black Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 15:30:34 -0600 To: clintw@colorado.cirrus.com (Clint Wolff) Subject: Re: P5 vs. P6 performance Cc: smp@freebsd.org, Bruce.Albrecht@seag.fingerhut.com References: <9611272118.AA16802@longs.colorado.cirrus.com> Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Everyone I have talked to about buying a single pentium 200 and adding a >second one later has cautioned against it... Apparently, Intel recommends >only using dual processors with the same S-Spec number (I assume this is >the stepping)... Buying one now and one later doesn't give you any >way of insuring this... yes, it said this in the docs that came with my dual p6 board. i may end up selling yms ingle p6 and buying 2 at once to get the same stepping. or i could risk it. b3n