From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 9 11:44:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA19504 for current-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 11:44:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA19494 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 11:44:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@korin.warman.org.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA02329 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 20:46:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 20:46:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Pentium II SMP system - looking for advice Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi! I'm going to get assembled a real beast for the purpose of ATM traffic analysis: 2*Pentium II 233, 512 MB RAM. I'm seeking advice from someone more experienced: * What motherboard should I use? What chipset? (ASUS, Intel, TX, LX ?) * What type of RAM (DIMM? is it really SO faster?) * ASUS m/b has on-board NCR SCSI. Should I use it, or go for 2940UW? * What processor/bus speed (I'll be very hungry for PCI bandwidth)? Price is not so important (to some extent.. :-)) The most important is RAM access speed and PCI b/w. Also, I'll need good SCSI for saving data (so as not to overload the cpus - I'll need all of the processing power to analyze the data). Thank you for any insight on this. Andrzej Bialecki ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@warman.org.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. ---------------------+---------------------------------------------------------