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Subject: Re: Dual processor ?
To: ejs@bfd.com (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:47:05 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9809290854590.19796-100000@harlie.bfd.com> from "Eric J. Schwertfeger" at Sep 29, 98 09:11:18 am
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> > Got a chance to buy this system. What ya think, how well would FreeBSD
> > perform on this as compared to a Single P200 chip with the rest of the
> > hardware the same ?  I would run -current elf with SMP.
> > 
> >    Mid-tower case, 7 bay
> >      Dual socket 8 motherboard, Ultra-wide onboard SCSI, onboard 10/100
> > NIC
> >      2 Pentium Pro 150 cpu's
> >      32 meg RAM
> >      Fujitsu 1 Gig Fast WIDE scsi HD
> >      keyboard, floppy, video
> >      NT 4.0 server
> 
> hmmmm... Not bad.  I can't remember who, but I know someone selling
> similar (probably same) MB, 2 PPro 166s (the ones with 512K cache) and
> 64MB ram for about $400. Or at least was, about 6 weeks ago.
> 
> Case, HD and NT 4.0 server isn't worth $95 + 32MB ram, smaller cache,
> slower CPU to me, at least.

	Remember that most P6-166/512K's can be easily pushed to run at
200Mhz (I'm batting 1000, 4 of 4), whereas the P6-150 generally cannot be
pushed to 200Mhz.
	P6-166/512K chips are readily available for $100 or less each and
dual P6 mobo's for $100 or less.

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