From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 18 12:49:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11469 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:49:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11307 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:48:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA11112; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 15:46:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 15:46:42 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@localhost To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Dag-Erling Coidan Sm rgrav , Fred Gilham , FreeBSD hackers list Subject: Re: opinions requested on new mainboard purchase In-Reply-To: <1462.887826942@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, 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? ;-) You could consider the Tyan S1662 Tital Pro, which is cheaply available, and works just fine for smp. I run one, and I think a lot of us do. I have two PPro/166's in mine. > > 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 > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message