From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Mar 5 11:37:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06985 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:37:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from tarkin.qualcomm.com (tarkin.qualcomm.com [129.46.111.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA06968; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:37:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rmallory@localhost) by tarkin.qualcomm.com (8.8.5/1.4/8.7.2/1.12) id LAA06203; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:36:38 -0800 (PST) From: Rob Mallory Message-Id: <199703051936.LAA06203@tarkin.qualcomm.com> Subject: Re: P6 MB recommendations To: Bruce.Albrecht@seag.fingerhut.com (Bruce Albrecht) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:36:38 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9703051603.AA28215@gf006e0.fingerhut.com.> from "Bruce Albrecht" at Mar 5, 97 10:03:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I'm planning to purchase a dual P6 system in the next 3 weeks, and I'm > looking for opinions about various mothboards and/or systems. I'm > only planning on buying one P6-200 CPU now, and a second one in about > 6 months. I'm only planning on using SCSI peripherals, mainly because > I intend to liberate a bunch of drives from my Amiga. > I recently purchased the Tyan dual-pro from www.env.com for $850 inc tax. (motherboard alone was $320) including 2 150MHz cpus (which I overclocked to 166MHz). Call (or email) them and see if you can get the "swap meet price". I chose it because of its 5 pci slots and 8 simm slots. 2 weeks ago the P6-200/512k cpu was just over $1k at the swap meet. they should drop to ~$750 when the klamath is released.(in may/june) Rob