Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 10:59:27 -0400 From: "Brian" <ircd@wrath.com> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dual Ppro motherboards Message-ID: <001501c0e2cf$cc126880$0201a8c0@fear.wrath.net> References: <004101c0e2b9$a4cd02a0$0a00a8c0@area51>
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I know this isn't the answer you were looking for.. but You can buy a pair of Pentium II 400's for around $70/each brand new (used processors make me leery). You can also buy a dual slot1 board for around $80 off eBay if you're patient. For example, I bought a Intel N440BX for just under $80 including shipping and handling. It's a pretty nice board with onboard scsi, fast ethernet, and video but it has a limit of what kind of processors it can use--the limit being katmai's. I still like my SuperMicro P6DBE better though. Just some more options to make you think a little more. And you'll like SMP, I'll never purchase another uniprocessor machine again. -Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Smith" <drsmithy@usa.net> To: <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 8:20 AM Subject: Dual Ppro motherboards > I've always wanted to have an SMP system and having noticed recently a > lot of Ppro/200s (some with 512k cache) going on ebay for around the > $50US mark, I'm seriously considering making myself up an SMP FreeBSD > Box. > > Anyway, one of the things holding me back is the potential cost of > fitting out a Dual PPro board with 128MB+ of EDO SIMMs. I figured > there's probably quite a few guys on these lists who have dealt with > this sort of hardware in the past, so I was wondering if anyone knows: > > 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 ? > > Cheers, > CS > > -- > "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-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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