From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Sep 17 10:38:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C249414E0A for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:38:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 79247 invoked from network); 17 Sep 1999 17:38:26 -0000 Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.40) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 17 Sep 1999 17:38:26 -0000 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:38:26 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: Eb Farris , dg@root.com, Neil Bradley , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quad-PIII...exists? In-Reply-To: <199909171621.JAA48657@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > I am surprised that none of you have tried Gigabyte. I have a gigabyte 6BXD with two PII 400s in it. This is the one that hasn't got builtin SCSI or networking. It works very well; though, if I was going to do it again, I would likely get one of the ones with builtin SCSI. I don't know if it makes a decent server box, but as a workstation it rocks. I can do a massive CPU bound job in the background, and still get really zippy interactive performance. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message