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Date:      Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:24:35 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        Bill Maniatty <maniattb@cs.rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dual Processor Motherboards
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.990727151552.5827B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907271824.OAA65142@cs.rpi.edu>

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On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Bill Maniatty wrote:

> 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.

There is also the Gigabyte 6XBD.  The  non-builtin SCSI versions can be had 
for less than $150.  Mine has been rock solid, running 2 PII -400s.  


David



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