From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 3 15:14:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA20961 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 15:14:38 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA20954 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 15:14:36 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA09041; Mon, 3 Apr 95 16:08:00 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504032208.AA09041@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Advice on new motherboard... To: jeffh@Cybernetics.NET (Jeff) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 95 16:07:59 MDT Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Jeff" at Apr 3, 95 12:51:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The two boards I am considering are: > > ASUS Dual-Pentium PCI/ISA with Neptune Chipset -- $351 > ASUS Single-Pentium PCI with Trident Chipset -- $250 (near there) ^^^^^^^ If you don't care about flavor, you should definitely go with the sugarless chipset. 8-). The dual pentium should work under NT as well, since it supposedly supports SMP out of the box. The dual machine will work in single processor mode with or without the extra chip in place for FreeBSD (several people have noted running in this configuration before). I believe the Triton won't give you that much better performance without the new cache RAM, which as far as I know isn't widely available. If you've got a source for EDRAM, it'd probably be fun to play with, though. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.