Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 10:56:42 -0600 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu (Kevin Van Maren) Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Subject: Re: hw platform Q - what's a good smp choice these days? Message-ID: <199810041656.KAA15784@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 09:06:36 MDT." <199810041506.JAA07196@fast.cs.utah.edu>
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Hi,
> Would it be for instance a good idea to run a quad Pentium I/233 MMX
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
do you mean P5 CPUs? Very bad idea, unless someone gives you one.
> Or should one look out for used PPros? (Are they still being sold?)
Again, unless you get one for a little above shipping, its a bad purchase
choice today.
>> I'd go with a dual 350MHz Pentium II. The CPUs are only ~ $315
>> each! Contrast that to $508 for the 400MHz, or $715 for the 450.
>> You get a 100Mhz bus, which is going to be better than a Pro system.
>> You can get a complete kick-ass system (w/o SCSI, but the IDE
>> driver in -CURRENT does DMA now) for under $2k (plus $1200-$1700
>> for a nice Sony 21" monitor), with 128MB SDRAM, cdrom, sound, etc.
Don't cheap-out on SCSI, its only about $120 more for u2w capability:
ASUS P2B-D Dual Pentium II AGP ATX Motherboard $299
ASUS P2B-DS Pentium II AGP ATX Motherboard $419
Much cheaper than adding a card later... I've really become a fan of the
Asus P2B-DS, I can do a "make -j12 buildworld" in about 40 minutes (3
spindles on u2w cheetahs).
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