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From: Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: SMP P-Pro MoBo - Recommendations?
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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