From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 22 18:24:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA17267 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:24:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from earth.mat.net (earth.mat.net [206.246.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA17260 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:24:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by earth.mat.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA18826; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 21:23:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 20:23:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: Tom cc: Steve Sims , "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: SMP P-Pro MoBo - Recommendations? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Tom wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Steve Sims wrote: > > > I know this is a rehash of a thread from a couple of months ago, but..... > > > > I'm thinking of plopping a dual P-Pro motherboard in my overstressed > > P5/120. > > ASUS has a nice dual-PPro board. The CPUs are on a daughter-card. You > can get dual-P5, dual-P6, and dual-PII daughtercards (there is only one > daughtercard slot). I've got two of these in 24x7 servers. Work well. I don't doubt it's good, but it seemed to me to be nearly twice the cost of the Tyan Titan that I settled on, for no difference in performance. The Tyan Titan didn't use the motherboard, and I thin maybe that's the largest reason for the higher cost. Either that, or maybe I didn't search out the lowest cost ... > > Tom > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------