From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 18 11:34:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20331 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:34:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tbird.cc.bellcore.com (tbird.cc.bellcore.com [128.96.96.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA20203 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:33:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khansen@njcc.com) Received: from monolith.bellcore.com by tbird.cc.bellcore.com with SMTP id AA05223 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 18 Feb 1998 14:38:17 -0500 Received: from khansen.cc.bellcore.com by monolith.bellcore.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA16208; Wed, 18 Feb 98 14:33:05 EST Message-Id: <34EB3777.1CA8@njcc.com> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 14:33:11 -0500 From: Ken Hansen Reply-To: khansen@njcc.com Organization: Dis X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Dag-Erling Coidan Sm rgrav , Fred Gilham , FreeBSD hackers list Subject: Re: opinions requested on new mainboard purchase References: <1462.887826942@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan, I do not have a "spare" dual P5 motherboard, but I did get a nice dual pentium Micron board for $99 from www.a1pc.com (the part is not listed on their web page, but is in their print ads). It is a FULL AT motherboard w/512K cache and built-in I/O and PS/2 connectors. The part number is M54Pe, and it is PCI/ISA - not sure about FreeBSD compatability (haven't tried it yet), but it is a nice WinNT box and has lots of memory slots (8 IIRC). Hope this helps, Ken Hansen khansen@njcc.com Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > But all this is really academic since, to the best of my knowledge, > > ASUSTek stopped producing T2P4 boards at least half a year ago. > > That reminds me... Anyone out there got a P54NP4 dual-Pentium > motherboard they want to donate to the FreeBSD Project? ;-) > > We wanted to build an SMP "spam box" for testing and got all the parts > together when we found out that our surplus P54NP4 board was actually > dead, so now we have everything ready but no motherboard, a quick > check of all the local stores also turning up the fact that nobody's > SELLING dual-Pentium mobos anymore so far as we're able to determine. > > Failing that we'll build a dual-P6 box since the P6/180 is a great > deal right now, but it seems sort of a waste of horsepower for a > machine which will spend most of its time powered off between > tests. ;-) > > Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message