I do believe the SMP issue is over rated with socket 370 processors
w/128k cache, and I do believe there are still several problems to
work out with the BP6 (mainly the HPT/66 controller). I took the BP6
/dual 500's out of my main system and replaced it with a P3-750/100
Slot 1, and was going to get rid of the BP6 all together.
I had a change of heart though and decided to keep it to replace my
firewall/workstation (which was a celeron 400), and make it a firewall/work
station/overclocking toy/seti cruncher and to see if kernel 2.4 adds better
SMP support.
I still to this date do not understand why my wife's 300a overclocked to
464mhz (slot 1) w/128mb ram does a seti packet in 8 hours 20 mins
(this is avg time with over 5000 packet hours), while it takes my BP6 with
dual 500's/66mhz w/ same memory 10 hours 45 mins.. (and I know seti
only supports single proc's, but you can run two seti's).
I know it can not be the FSB issue, so I was thinking it has to do with
slot 1 versus socket 370, but that still doesn't sound right.. at anyrate
I am sure I will still enjoy the BP6 for sometime now.
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