From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 21 03:21:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA27574 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 03:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.philips.nl (ns.philips.nl [130.144.65.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA27567 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 03:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by relay.philips.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9-950414) id MAA05617 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:19:14 +0200 Received: from unknown(192.26.173.32) by ns.philips.nl via smap (V1.3+ESMTP) with ESMTP id sma005470; Wed Aug 21 12:17:55 1996 Received: from aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com (aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com [130.144.70.193]) by smtp.nl.cis.philips.com (8.6.10/8.6.10-0.9z-02May95) with ESMTP id MAA08543 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:20:34 +0200 Received: from NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com (nlnmg01 [130.144.80.6]) by aonc01.nym.sc.philips.com (8.6.10/8.6.10-0.993a-08Jan96) with ESMTP id MAA13597 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:19:07 +0200 Received: from NLNMG01/MAILQUEUE by NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com (Mercury 1.21); 21 Aug 96 12:19:12 +0100 Received: from MAILQUEUE by NLNMG01 (Mercury 1.21); 21 Aug 96 12:18:51 +0100 From: "Kees Jan Koster" Organization: Philips Semiconductors Nijmegen To: hardware@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:18:46 GMT+0100 Subject: multi, non-pentium motherboards? Reply-to: Kees.Koster@nym.sc.philips.com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <2954836C41@NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com> Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hoi Hardware, Darn, I was a little quick to drop that e-mail about the dual 586-100's. That sounds really interesting. I just sold my old motherboard and somewhere next week I'll buy a new one. I'm considering an AMD-133, or another non-intel-almost-pentium cpu. However, I would _like_ to experiment with a multi-processor board too. Now, the price for a dual pentium seems a little over my budget, but if there is an alternative... Could you give me some advice, please? I sort of dread the amount of gibberish the salespeople are going to stuff down my throat next week and I'd like some professional advice first. - What speed of pentium do I need to match an AMD-133 during a large gcc-compile (read: make world). - Apart from the AMD-133, what are fast-and-cheap alternatives for pentiums? Are the IBM's and Cyrixes any good? - Are there non-pentium multiprocessor boards? Which ones are good? - If I go for a cheap dual processor board, how many hours of hacking do I need to get FreeBSD to use both processors? - Any brand of cpu/motherboard that I should avoid? Thanks in advance, Kees Jan Koster