Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 04:16:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PIII SMP Message-ID: <3F2657A2.19FC7E20@mindspring.com> References: <27727.1059465900@www22.gmx.net> <3F265050.8000705@liwing.de>
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Jens Rehsack wrote: > On 29.07.2003 10:05, freebsd_deamon@gmx.net wrote: > > buying two PIII for a dual system ... what do i have to pay attention to > > (besides the requirements of the M/B)? > > aka ... are all PIII SMP capable? > > > > thanks > > Maybe you want to take a look into > <http://www.bnv-bamberg.de/home/ba3294/smp/index.htm>; first, too? Excellent resource! Thanks for posting this! BTW: Since the PIII's run in slightly older motherboards, it's probably worth pointing out that a number of the Intel chipsets are known to have problems with PCI bus master arbitration when you have more than 2 PCI bus master devices in the box; the one I definitely recognized as being a problem was the NX, but I had also heard there were issues with the FX and the ServerWorks III, as well. Checking "Tom's Hardware" is probably a good idea. I didn't see this mentioned in any of the "Notes"/"Comment" sections. -- Terry
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