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Date:      Thu, 9 Oct 1997 20:46:15 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@korin.warman.org.pl>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Pentium II SMP system - looking for advice
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.971009203223.27025A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>

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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

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