From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Jul 27 11:25:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from cs.rpi.edu (mumble.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.8.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A9E14DB7 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:25:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maniattb@cs.rpi.edu) Received: from cs.rpi.edu (maniattb@dishwasher.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.8.31]) by cs.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA65142; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:24:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907271824.OAA65142@cs.rpi.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: maniattb@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Dual Processor Motherboards Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:24:50 -0400 From: Bill Maniatty Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello There: I apologize if you have seen this already in freebsd-hardware, but I thought this forum might be appropriate for this sort of discussion as well. I was looking to make an affordable, yet high performance home machine using a dual processor board. I want to be able to run the most recent stable release, and was going to get Intel based processors. I would like the processors to be fairly speedy, say 400-500 MHZ. Since I'm going to live with the system for quite a while, I might want it to be kind of fast (but not prohibitively expensive). I had the following questions: 1) Do people have specific recommendations about boards to buy/don't buy? 2) A local vendor is pushing Soyo boards at a $239 which is below the $400+ prices I have seen quoted for an AsusTek P2B-DS board. I assume they mean a SY-D6IBA or SY-D6IBA2. Anybody have any experiences with such a board? 3) Multiple people in the hardware mailing list suggested the ABIT BP6 for dual Celeron machines (overclocking 300 MHZ processors). Another also mentioned (but had not tried) the MSI 6120 board. Regards: Bill Maniatty -- ------------------------------------ Dr. William (Bill) A. Maniatty Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University at Albany Albany, NY 12222 e-mail (at RPI): maniattb@cs.rpi.edu e-mail (at SUNYA): maniatty@cs.albany.edu URL: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~maniattb ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message