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To: wwoods@cybcon.com
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Subject: Re: This a decent system for FreeBSD?
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From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com>
Date: 29 Sep 1998 09:44:57 -0400
In-Reply-To: William Woods's message of Tue, 29 Sep 1998 03:45:27 -0700
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William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> writes:

> Got a chance to buy this system. What ya think, how well would FreeBSD
> perform on this as compared to a Single P200 chip with the rest of the
> hardware the same ?  I would run -current elf with SMP.
> 
>    Mid-tower case, 7 bay
>      Dual socket 8 motherboard, Ultra-wide onboard SCSI, onboard 10/100
> NIC
>      2 Pentium Pro 150 cpu's
>      32 meg RAM
>      Fujitsu 1 Gig Fast WIDE scsi HD
>      keyboard, floppy, video
>      NT 4.0 server
> 
> They want $495.00, sound like a decent deal?

If you can get them to remove NT4.0Server and refund the $500 list
price that it supposedly costs, then it would be a *great* deal. :-)

I just bought some pieces which might be faster/cheaper:

$115	K6/2-300
$ 85	FIC 503+ mobo (with 1M L2 cache, can do 100Mhz bus with the K6/2-300)

Other bits I priced:

$85	64MB PC-100 10ns RAM DIMM (can operate at 100Mhz)
$20	box, power supply
$ 5	keyboard
$15	floppy
$115	Matrox Millenium II AGP 8MB (high end performance and price)

Disk is cheap but unfortunately SCSI seems to be about twice the price
of IDE/UDMA. 

I would guess the K6/2-300 would be significantly faster than a
PPro-150 because of the high speed L2 cache path, and because
multi-CPU scaling is not linear, faster than 2xPPro150.

By my math, I'd say even as cheap as this appears, it's not as great a
deal as buying the latest components. At least I hope so for my own
sake! :-)

Computer HW is such a bad investment, but they're so cheap I can't
help myself!

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