Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 08:10:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>, current@FreeBSD.org, smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Recommendations... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961025080049.8940C-100000@harlie> In-Reply-To: <199610250654.XAA04986@MindBender.serv.net>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > almost impossible to get right now, and because of that, have gone way > back up in price. Don't bother with a 180 -- wrong bus speed > (remember, always multiples of 33 1/3). The P6 166MHz with the 512K > cache is supposed to be a good chip, if you can get it cheap (and > faster than the P6/180-256K). I've always wonderd if the P6/150 (I've got a price of $309 on it) could be overclocked to 166 to get the 33mhz bus speed :-) Given that most Intel CPU's can be overclocked by 10-20% with a low failure rate, it might be worth toying with. Of course, if reliability is more important than price, don't. > machine. So, it might not give you as much absolute punch per dollar, > but it might be possible to do dual-P5 for less overall dollars (and > you could probably get the chips right away). Definitely try to get > 512K cache(s) if you go with a dual-P5. Unless price is critical, which I don't believe to be the case. The Tyan Tomcat II (at $250 for an SMP motherboard based on the HX chipset) has problems if you run dual Pentiums, 512K cache, and speed greater than 120 Mhz. Drop any one of the three, and the problem goes away. The problem may be fixed, I haven't heard, and wouldn't trust anyone to get me a fixed MB even if they had. anyway, neither of these should be major issues in this case, but some other speed freak on a budget may be following this conversation. I've found a FIC Natoma motherboard for $260, and a P6/150 for $309. Yes, I am quite tempted. Only the low memory bandwidth of the Natoma chipset (compared to the Triton HX chipset) has made me hesitate.
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