Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 01:29:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> To: =?KOI8-R?B?88XSx8XKIO/Tz8vJzg==?= <osa@etrust.ru> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907220127360.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907221211030.895-100000@ns.etrust.ru>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, [KOI8-R] Сергей Осокин wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > Greetings everyone, > > > > What are the current good motherboards for FreeBSD for the pentium > > II and III? I know on the Pentium, it was the ASUS board but for the > > PII/PIII, is the Abit the better board? Also, I was wondering what is the > > fastest Celeron chip that can be overclocked to run at 100Mhz FSB? Does > > it matter if it's Slot 1 or PPGA based? Thanks. > > My home box based Abit BX6 rev.2.0 Slot1 & i use PPGA Celeron-300A with > Socket370->Slot1 bridge overclocked to 450 (100x4.5) with Pelitier > element. This motherboard support PII/PIII. > More overclockers says: Abit better then Asus. I think it right. > All works fine. Pretty interesting... The Pelitier element is pretty expensive I think... It seems like I've seen more Abit than ASUS Boards when it's a FreeBSD box. We have a 266 running at 400 (100x4) but I don't know which Pentium II would it be the closest to since this is a cacheless chip. It has 384 megs of ram and one thing I can't figure out is that the machine will sometimes pause for a few seconds when I type a command... Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.05.9907220127360.331-100000>