Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 13:05:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Kyle Mestery <mestery@winternet.com> To: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good deal on hardware Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980524130415.2237B-100000@tundra.winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <199805231806.UAA04502@sos.freebsd.dk>
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On Sat, 23 May 1998, Søren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Steve Passe who wrote: > > > > pentium pros are more forgiving as to mixed revs than the pentiums were, > > but it can still be a problem with early silicon. Current pricing at atipa: > > Generally if they are step 7 or later, they will work together, and it > will be real hard to find anything but step 9's, unless its some reused > chips.. (I'd love to get my hands on two old 166Mhz/512K cpu's :)) > I recently (last month) got two 166Mhz/512K cpus from Micro-Xpress for only $179 a piece, and they run fine at 200MHz. I even got them to run at 233MHz for a while. VEry good deal IMHO since the 180/256 were the same price. -- Kyle Mestery StorageTek's Network Systems Group "I'll take what you're willing to give, and I'll teach myself to live, with a walk-on part of a background shot from a movie I'm not in." - Blink 182, "Apple Shampoo" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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