From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 26 23:35:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6353152CC for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:35:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA25544; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:34:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <379D52E9.E5A375C@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:34:17 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Maniatty Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Processor Motherboards References: <199907270430.AAA53231@cs.rpi.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bill Maniatty wrote: > > Hello There: > > I was looking to make an affordable, yet high performance home machine > using a dual processor board. I want to be able to run the most recent > stable release, and was going to get Intel based processors. I would > like the processors to be fairly speedy, say 400-500 MHZ. Since I'm going > to live with the system for quite a while, I might want it to be kind > of fast (but not prohibitively expensive). Well, it's really hard to get better equipment than you're willing to pay for. :) We have had very good luck at work with the Intel N440BX with dual PIII 500's, but our systems are pretty well loaded down, and cost > $3k. HTH, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message