On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Kam Yee Lo wrote:
> Just curious about Debian running dual celeron with better FPU? I'm > thinking of installing Debian on dual celeron for CAD. Is dual celeron > 500mhz faster than Pentium III 500mhz? I want good debian linux and > cheap dual celeron :) > > Anyone have dual celeron AbIT motherboard? > > Thanks > Griz Hi Kam, I am running an Abit BP6 with 2 x Celeron 400s. It usually behaves itself but is very sensative to heat. I get lockups every now and then because of the BX chip overheating. The heatsink that comes on the board on top of the BX doens't provide enough heat dissipation <sp>. What I and a few others from the linux-smp list have done is put a small Socket7 CPU fan+heatsink on top of the chip and it seems to cool things down somewhat. My case is a mess of fans. I have one fan sucking air out the back, one fan blowing air in the front, and one fan laying directly on top of the two processors [each CPU gets 1/2 the fan]. Use MPS v1.4 mode selectable in the BIOS because it gets you a lot more IRQs and other stuff that I don't know enough about. If you have a bus mastering PCI SCSI card put it in PCI2. USB and the last two PCI slots share IRQs I think. The onboard ATA66 doohickey works with a patch from The Linux IDE Guy (tm). Ian Ehrenwald