Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 23:25:47 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Kevin Van Maren <vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual-Athlon vs Dual-PIII ... opinions? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008092324120.54797-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <200008100220.UAA07567@fast.cs.utah.edu>
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ASUS has this board: http://www.asus.com.tw/products/motherboard/pentiumpro/cur-dls/index.html anyone try it out/look at it? On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Kevin Van Maren wrote: > There are no dual Athlons...yet. Unfortunatly, there aren't any good > 133MHz chipsets, especially that support SMP. THere is the i840, which > has problems with SDRAM; there are the 440BX/GX, that only run up to > 100MHz bus, and there is the 820 (SMP support?). > > Your best bet for a good system would seem to be ServerWorks (old RCC); > Dell, COmpaq, etc, sell systems with their chipsets, but there aren't > any plain motherboards available (there was one announced by Tyan). > The serverworks chipset supports 64-bit PCI, and 66MHz PCI, and several > independant PCI busses. Most of the BX/GX boards do not support the > coppermine CPUs, and pre-coppermine CPUs are scarce. > The Intel L440GX+ was a nice server board (bridged AGP to 66MHz PCI); > I am quite happy with my Asus P2B-DS, but it doesn't support Coppermine. > > Good luck, and let me know what you end up doing. > > Kevin Van Maren > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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