From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 26 21:32:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cs.rpi.edu (mumble.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.8.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0798E1526A for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:32:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maniattb@cs.rpi.edu) Received: from cs.rpi.edu (maniattb@dishwasher.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.8.31]) by cs.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA53231; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 00:30:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907270430.AAA53231@cs.rpi.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: maniattb@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Dual Processor Motherboards Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 00:30:29 -0400 From: Bill Maniatty Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello There: I was looking to make an affordable, yet high performance home machine using a dual processor board. I want to be able to run the most recent stable release, and was going to get Intel based processors. I would like the processors to be fairly speedy, say 400-500 MHZ. Since I'm going to live with the system for quite a while, I might want it to be kind of fast (but not prohibitively expensive). I had the following questions: 1) Do people have specific recommendations about boards to buy/don't buy? 2) A local vendor is pushing Soyo boards at a $239 which is below the $400+ prices I have seen quoted for an AsusTek P2B-DS board. I assume they mean a SY-D6IBA or SY-D6IBA2. Anybody have any experiences with such a board? Regards: Bill Maniatty -- ------------------------------------ Dr. William (Bill) A. Maniatty Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University at Albany Albany, NY 12222 e-mail (at RPI): maniattb@cs.rpi.edu e-mail (at SUNYA): maniatty@cs.albany.edu URL: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~maniattb ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message