From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 5:49:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mss.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au (ha2.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au [203.164.2.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 072C237B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 05:49:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drsmithy@usa.net) Received: from area51 ([203.164.81.76]) by mss.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010522124909.RQMU25209.mss.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au@area51> for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 22:49:09 +1000 From: "Christopher Smith" To: Subject: RE: Dual Ppro motherboards Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:49:15 +1000 Message-ID: <004401c0e2bd$9cf71a30$0a00a8c0@area51> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: <3B0A5E24.C0131674@urx.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Were there any Ppro boards made that supported SDRAM (ie DIMMs) ? I > > believe riser cards are available to convert Socket 8 CPUs > to Slot 1 - > > does anyone have any experience with them ? > > If you are looking at producing a more powerfull computer, I > think you are going about it in the wrong way. I have an > Athlon 900 system and a dual 866 coppermine system. The > Athlon runs about 10% slower than the dual 866's and cost > much less. The expected ratio in multiprocessor systems used > to be 1.8 and the dual 866's really miss that mark. Nah, I just want a box with two CPUs :). My main box now is a Celeron/450 with 256MB and 99% of the time it's more than fast enough - a Dual PPro/200 setup certainly isn't going to be any *slower*. > The memory in a old PPro box has to be a severe limitation. I > have a Celeron 433 that runs about 40% slower than a P-III > 400. It used to run 50% slower, which just turns out to be > the ratio 100MHz memory vs 66MHz memory, and then I replaced > the PC-66 memory with PC-100 and it ran about 15% faster. It's not the speed that concerns me as much as the cost of 72pin SIMMs. > I don't think an old 66MHz FSB system is a good deal at any > price. You could purchase a fairly good AMD Durlon(?) for the > price you are going to spend of the two PPros and have a much > more effective system. Price-wise I doubt it (I'm in Australia and I've got some old stuff I'd be just migrating into it as I upgrade my other machines - like RAM - that would otherwise just be left sitting) and anyway, all I really want is an SMP system just to say I have one :D. Yes, I've considered the old dual celeron boards. No, I'm not interested - I had a friend with one of them and he had nothing but grief with it. -- "I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" --Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message