Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 07:50:23 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Eb Farris <efarris@surfusa.com>, dg@root.com, Neil Bradley <neil@synthcom.com>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quad-PIII...exists? Message-ID: <199909181450.HAA25704@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:38:26 CDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96.990917120246.35634F-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
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David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> wrote:
> 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.
Here's another plug for Gigabyte. I've got the 6BXDS (6BXD w/7895
SCSI), and it's very nice. If you don't need LVD or U2 and can live
with narrow or plain wide SCSI (both busses can be used simultaneously),
it's a pretty good deal (around US$300, today, although it used to be
around US$230 a few months back).
The 6BXD is also one of the cheapest dual-processor BX-based
boards, being around US$160. If you don't need SCSI, I think it's a
great way to go. It is difficult to find, though.
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@sr.hp.com
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