Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:42:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@korin.warman.org.pl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium II SMP system - looking for advice Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971009123915.27604A-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.971009203223.27025A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> 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:
Go PPro for dual CPU systems. The PPro are faster in SMP
configurations than the PII. The PII 233 is definitely not worth it for
dual-cpu configs.
> * What motherboard should I use? What chipset? (ASUS, Intel, TX, LX ?)
I've been using the ASUS dual PPro board (the one with the CPU
daughtercard).
> * What type of RAM (DIMM? is it really SO faster?)
DIMMs are not, unless they are SDRAM, in which case they could be faster
depending on your access pattern. Don't look at the package, look at the
type of RAM used, ie EDO, BEDO, SDRAN, etc.
> * 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)?
What are the disks for?
> 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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Tom
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