From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 25 04:56:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA16779 for current-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 04:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gargoyle.bazzle.com ([206.103.246.190]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA16688; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 04:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gargoyle.bazzle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gargoyle.bazzle.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA27658; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 07:55:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 07:55:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Eric J. Chet" To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: current@freebsd.org, smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Hi... > > I'm going back to University in the spring, and wish to > get together a nice system *before* I become a starving student > again :) > > I'm interested in playing around with the SMP side of > FreeBSD, since what I've read on the mail list seems to indicate > that its relatively stable, altho still developing... > > I still haven't looked into costs yet, but would I be > better going with a P6 vs a Dual-P5? Does anyone have any > recommendations on which motherboard for either I should be > looking at? make/model? cache? > > On a costs note...which would I get more 'bang-for-my-buck' > from? Hello Dual P6s are not cost effective right now. You can get a dual P5, with adaptec 2490UW SCSI onboard, Triton-II, 512K pipeline burst cache mainboard for $350. It's a GigaByte GA-586DX-512. I believe one of the SMP developers is using this mainboard. Check out http://www.atipa.com for a reseller. This board with two P5-133 would make a nice development system. Peace, Eric J. Chet - ejc@bazzle.com > > Thanks... > > Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net > Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org >