Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:09:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Steve Sims <SimsS@ibm.net>, "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SMP P-Pro MoBo - Recommendations? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971022190530.13968A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971022202152.13098N-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > 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 ... Which Tyan Titan? I see about 9 different Titan boards. I find the cost difference kind of hard to believe, but I get a pretty good deal on ASUS stuff when buying from Supercom. The daughtercard thing is pretty cool. If the system ever needs a bit more kick, just put in the PII/300. Downtime is minimal, as you don't have to remove the motherboad to install a different daughtercard. I wish ASUS made a motherboard with two daughtercard slots, and up to 4 CPUs. Tom
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