From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Jul 28 7:50:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from allied.org (broken.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.77.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 210AA14BF4 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 07:50:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j3@allied.org) Received: (qmail 5837 invoked from network); 28 Jul 1999 15:50:17 -0000 Received: from dyn19.cello-us.com (HELO dimension-m166a) (208.212.48.52) by broken.ne.mediaone.net with SMTP; 28 Jul 1999 15:50:17 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990728104922.007a3a40@broken.ne.mediaone.net> X-Sender: j3@broken.ne.mediaone.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:49:22 -0400 To: "Gary D. Margiotta" From: j3 Subject: Re: Dual Processor Motherboards (Abit BP6) Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.6.32.19990727163928.008230d0@broken.ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >If you're looking for price/performance, get the Abit BP6 and run dual >celerons on it... a lot of people have had quite good results with them, >and for price, I'd say the dual 366 PPGA is the best deal... > >______________________________________________________________ >-Gary Margiotta Voice: (973) 835-7855 >TBE Internet Services Fax: (973) 835-4755 >http://www.tbe.net E-Mail: gary@tbe.net > I have been following the BP6 and the rumors of Intel changing the celeron fab to disable (permanently) SMP operation. I quote from http://www.bxboards.com : __ My rather tounge-in-cheek comment that the "for uniprocessor systems only" marking could just be a cheap trick from Intel to make people think twice about going dual Celeron could well be right! Some reports are filtering through that CPU's with this box marking are still dual SMP capable and even the Celeron 500, which was reported to have this locking - as a direct response to Abit's BP6 - seem also to work. Right now, as always in these cases, the picture is confusing. My advice would be to hunt down pre-July Celeron's for now to be on the safe-side. I personally still believe that Intel will not tolerate dual SMP Celerons much longer... Update: A couple of vendors have written to me confirming this. Steve from UKGamers wrote: Saw your post on your site. For your reader's information I have tried week 26 celerons in SMP and they work ok. By my calculation that makes 1st week july ok for now. PCNut wrote: Just FYI, I have tested about 10 week 27 C366 chips tonight, they are OEM chips made in Malaysia; which I doubt is much different from the retail version. They work just fine on BP6 in SMP mode, cooking along at 2 x 550Mhz as we speak. Just thought you may like to know, Intel has yet disable the SMP on these Celeron chips, just change the label on the retail boxed processors. :) __ So, the longetivity of Celeron SMP is murky water, no one really knows what is coming. If you are thinking about building a BP6 system though, I would advise you to buy your chips now. Prices won't drop much lower then they already are for the 300-366 range, and the 400-466 will probably only go down $20 or so in the coming months. If you are waiting for 500 mhz, good luck. -Jeff Casimir PS: Can anyone reccomend a FAQ/Step-by-step on setting up a FreeBSD (uniprocessor) box as a firewall/DNS solution? I am an "intelligent newb" when it comes to software, I am mostly a hardware geek. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message