From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Apr 27 22:14:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA22724 for smp-outgoing; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:14:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA22718 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:14:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA23937 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:14:15 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199704280514.XAA23937@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quad Pro 150 motherboard? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Apr 1997 21:58:41 MDT." <199704280358.VAA10841@fast.cs.utah.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:14:15 -0600 Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > My rule of thumb was 256k/16MB ram. But that was before memory got > soooo cheap. Actually, there have been numerous benchmarks that have > shown that 3 166/512k chips blow away 4 200/256k chips. It was > too bad that Intel discontinued the Pro/166. but you can still get them. I bought two several weeks ago, and they are very happy running at 200mHz. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD