dual proc is good, i reccomend good boards from asus or tyan (usually run around $400 with scsi)
avoid boards like the bp6. one odd thing i noticed. i recently downgraded from BP6 to an asus single cpu box. (from dual 466 to 1 466) XMMS (mp3 player) took about 30% of cpu when using the BP6 now it takes about 0.8% of CPU playing the same songs off the same hardware(minus the BP6 and minus 1 cpu, and kernel recompiled for uniprocessor mode) afterstep applets usually ate around 10% of the CPU even when idle (even apps like wminet wmmon chewed cpu) now with a single cpu the apps all use 0.0% cpu. dont know if it's me, the board, the kernel or what was causing it. (I have been using the BP6 for about a year). anyone else experienced similar issues ?? nate On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Bob McGowan wrote: rmcgow >I'm planning on building my own PC and am interested in recommendations rmcgow >for motherboard manufacturers and CPU's. I'm thinking about going with rmcgow >a dual CPU and using SMP. rmcgow > rmcgow >Thanks, rmcgow > rmcgow >-- rmcgow >Bob McGowan rmcgow >Staff Software Quality Engineer rmcgow >VERITAS Software rmcgow >[EMAIL PROTECTED] rmcgow > rmcgow > rmcgow >-- rmcgow >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null rmcgow > ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5:34pm up 9 days, 1:02, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.03, 0.01