Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 09:53:43 +0200 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: Joachim Strombergson <Joachim.Strombergson@Ericsson.com> Cc: freebsd-smp <freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FCPGA and the new Celerons in BP6 MB for SMP? Message-ID: <C12568F9.002B60BD.00@frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr>
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--0__=dlxKNejl8Mr8nbuaJrc61efrqEazquRz4tvQcCt1f4sl30weRYX0jElQ Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hello, I also own a BP6 (but with cel-333's), and I'm considering an upgrade. I have for now seen two ways : - buy a SMP board using a Via chipset (I know this seems crazy, SMP being a bit "picky" wrt to chipset), more specifically an MSI 6321 (if it supports FCPGA's) - keep my old BP6 as my only SMP machine, and buy a cheap but wonderfully fast "Duron" mono-processor (~$120 for 600-MHz) I'm afraid an upgrade of the BP6 itself will never happen (the powerleap adaptor supported only one FCPGA the last time I checked), and anyway, the Pentium-III chips are much too expensive for me. TfH Joachim Strombergson <Joachim.Strombergson@Ericsson.com> on 09/06/2000 08:46:17 To: freebsd-smp <freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG> cc: (bcc: Thierry HERBELOT/FR/ALCATEL) Subject: FCPGA and the new Celerons in BP6 MB for SMP? --0__=dlxKNejl8Mr8nbuaJrc61efrqEazquRz4tvQcCt1f4sl30weRYX0jElQ Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Hi! I'm since a year back a happy owner of a FreeBSD SMP system currently based on the ABIt BP6 MB equipped with two Celeron 366 PPGA processors.= Then system running FreeBSD 4.0 is stable and able to take a great load= , like EMACS and StarOffice at the same time... But the speed (SETI hours= actually) isn't enough for my needs/wishes/geek-wants. After overcooking/overclocking them (yes, yes - I know it's a no, no) I've had a few hiccups in the system. I'm therefore resorting to more certified ways of getting better performance (can we ever have enough? ;-) I've tried to figure out if the BP6 or any other MB with PPGA sockets can use the new Celerons with FCPGA packaging. There are converters to connect a FCPGA to a Slot1 MB, but haven't seen anything related to PPGA. Is the PPGA a dead end? Also, are the new Celerons (566/600) SMP-able? I've asked around, but gotten highly different answers. Should I instead opt for the older 500= or 533 MHz non-coppermine based Celerons? So, anyone with real world experience on this? Is the truth out there? -- Med v=E4nlig h=E4lsning, Yours Joachim Str=F6mbergson - Alltid i harmonisk sv=E4ngning ---------------- Ericsson Microwave Systems AB ----------------- Joachim Str=F6mbergson http://www.ericsson.se/microwave ASIC System on Silicon engineer, nice to CUTE animals. * Opinions above, expressed or implicit, are strictly personal * ------------- Spamfodder: regeringen@regeringen.se ------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message = --0__=dlxKNejl8Mr8nbuaJrc61efrqEazquRz4tvQcCt1f4sl30weRYX0jElQ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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