From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 26 23:58:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cod.progroup.com (cod.progroup.com [207.44.190.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4683314F64 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:57:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craig@progroup.com) Received: from progroup.com (guppy.progroup.com [207.44.190.237]) by cod.progroup.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA05919 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:53:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craig@progroup.com) Message-ID: <379D583F.CCFCCA28@progroup.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:57:03 -0700 From: Craig Shaver Organization: Productivity Group, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 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). > > I had the following questions: > 1) Do people have specific recommendations about boards to buy/don't buy? > 2) A local vendor is pushing Soyo boards at a $239 which is below the $400+ > prices I have seen quoted for an AsusTek P2B-DS board. I assume they > mean a SY-D6IBA or SY-D6IBA2. Anybody have any experiences with such > a board? > I was going to try a system built around an ABIT BP6 Dual Socket 370 Processor ATX Mother-Board . Ultra DMA66 . Intel 440BX AGPset . 5 PCI / 2 ISA / 1 AGP Slots . 3 x 168-pin Memory Slots up to 768Mb Takes 2 Celery chips. The board can be had for under $140, and the Celeries are around $100 each for the 400mhz ones. My reasearch says this should be the best bang for the buck. No on board anything, so you will have to go buy a few boards. -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (650)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088 http://www.progroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message