From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Sep 18 7:51:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from atlrel1.hp.com (atlrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C952A14D43 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 07:51:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@sr.hp.com) Received: from postal.sr.hp.com (root@postal.sr.hp.com [15.4.46.173]) by atlrel1.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id KAA16742; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 10:49:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com (root@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by postal.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id HAA12026; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 07:50:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (darrylo@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by mina.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id HAA25704; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 07:50:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909181450.HAA25704@mina.sr.hp.com> To: David Scheidt Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , Eb Farris , dg@root.com, Neil Bradley , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quad-PIII...exists? Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:38:26 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 07:50:23 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Scheidt 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 DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message