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Date:      Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:12:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
To:        Joachim Strombergson <Joachim.Strombergson@emw.ericsson.se>
Cc:        Fabio Cesar Gozzo <fabio@iqm.unicamp.br>, "freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Dual PIII motherboard
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907261004270.15272-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
In-Reply-To: <379C2A98.73172686@emw.ericsson.se>

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On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Joachim Strombergson wrote:

> I bought the amazing ABIT BP6 Dual Celeron MB this saturday with two
> Celeron 366 PPGAs. It runs several SETIs in FreeBSD SMP at home right
> now. Also, I got it to boot and run for ~4 hours in 2*550MHz! In short:
> Want a cheap SMP system that works with FreeBSD, get the ABIT BP6 and
> some Celerons.

I did the same thing this weekend, but am having minor problems, probably
heat related (sig 11 after an hour or so of makedepend/make world in
single-CPU mode). The more cautious may want to go with 333s.  I would
have, but couldn't find OEM 333s, only retail, and Las Vegas is dusty
enough that most fans only last a year at best. Still more heatsink/grease
combo's to try, so I haven't given up on 550, but I'll be happy at
dual-510, quite the jump from dual-PPro200(512k cache). (Yes, I know
overclocking is not for everyone, and certainly not for anyone that isn't
willing to experiment alot to get a stable system).

Now if only there were a way to get the temp/fan RPM data from within
freebsd, so I don't have to reboot to check the CPU temp while I'm
stress-testing :-)  I remember some discussion about that on one of the
other lists, but don't remember there being an answer, and can't even
remember if there is a standard for the hardware interface for that kind
of info.



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