Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 03:30:24 -0400 From: Bill Cohane <wcohane@idt.net> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Processor Motherboards Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990727032544.009b6b30@pop3.idt.net>
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At 00:30 7/27/99 , Bill Maniatty wrote: >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). Hi Bill I recently built myself an SMP system using an Abit BP6 motherboard ($139) and two $60 PPGA Celeron 300a processors, both easily overclocked to 450 MHz. (The BP6 re-enables the SMP capability of the Celerons that Intel had disabled.) For information on the Abit dual socket 370 board, see <http://www.abit-usa.com/english/product/bp6.htm>. <http://www.pricewatch.com/>; lists dozens of dealers with BP6 boards in stock, from $130 on up. (I have used PCNUT and Atacom with good success.) Of course you can always pay more and put 466 MHz Celerons on the Abit BP6 board instead of overclocking 300a Celerons. Another way to do dual processing with Celerons is to buy a dual slot one board (like the Abit P2B-D for $275) and use two MSI MS-6905 "slotket" adaptors. See <http://www.cpu-central.com/ms-6905.html>. For a comparison of Dual Celeron vs. Dual Pentium III systems (with benchmarks), see <http://www.arstechnica.com/cpu/3q99/smp/smp-1.html>. You will generally find that the Celerons hold their own against the more expensive Pentium II and III processors...despite their smaller (but faster) L2 cache. By the way... Check out the MSI dual slot one MS-6120 motherboard at <http://www.msi.com.tw/product_guide/mainboard/data/6120.htm>. I know several people who are very happy with single processor MSI slot one and socket 370 boards. Regards, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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