Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:47:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Ts'o" <dan@dna.rockefeller.edu> To: ejs@bfd.com (Eric J. Schwertfeger) Cc: wwoods@cybcon.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual processor ? Message-ID: <199809291847.OAA00690@dna.rockefeller.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9809290854590.19796-100000@harlie.bfd.com> from "Eric J. Schwertfeger" at Sep 29, 98 09:11:18 am
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> > 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 > > hmmmm... Not bad. I can't remember who, but I know someone selling > similar (probably same) MB, 2 PPro 166s (the ones with 512K cache) and > 64MB ram for about $400. Or at least was, about 6 weeks ago. > > Case, HD and NT 4.0 server isn't worth $95 + 32MB ram, smaller cache, > slower CPU to me, at least. Remember that most P6-166/512K's can be easily pushed to run at 200Mhz (I'm batting 1000, 4 of 4), whereas the P6-150 generally cannot be pushed to 200Mhz. P6-166/512K chips are readily available for $100 or less each and dual P6 mobo's for $100 or less. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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