From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 28 10:49:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cod.progroup.com (cod.progroup.com [207.44.190.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5E914C0E for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:49:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craig@cod.progroup.com) Received: (from craig@localhost) by cod.progroup.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id KAA10749; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craig) From: "Craig W. Shaver" Message-Id: <199907281744.KAA10749@cod.progroup.com> Subject: Re: Dual Processor Motherboards To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:44:38 -0700 (PDT) Cc: craig@cod.progroup.com (Craig W. Shaver) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, All this talk about dual cpu's, celery chips, etc., has gotten me off my butt. I had planned on buying one of these in a little while, but with the talk about how Intel may change the internals of the Celery to prohibit dual cpu use, I decided to go ahead and buy the system parts and build it. I will report back so interested parties can see what my experience was. There were some excellent suggestions from one fellow on where he bought his set up. I did some research and decided to go with a little hole in the wall outfit at http://www.advanceddesignky.com/ . This is Advanced Design of Kentucky (Hillbilly PC's R us :). They had decent pricing and specialized in overclocking and performance issues. So rather than make an educated guess and hope for the best, I asked this fellow what he recommended. He puts the cpus on the motherboard and tests before shipping. So I ended up with a system based on the ABIT BP6 and 2 Celery 366a's overclocked to 550mhz. If it doesn't hold up I can drop the bus rate back until it does. I should have it up and running in a week or so. I will report back to this list if anyone is interested in my experience. Any suggestions on benchmarks to run? Thanks for the input from everyone, -- Craig Shaver, Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088 (650)390-0654 http://www.progroup.com/ mailto:craig@progroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message