Don Fisher wrote:
> I wanted to report success in setting up a dual 450 mHz Xeon system
using a ASUS
> XG-DLS mainboard. I have never had such a stable system:-) Not one
sig11 in all
> of the kernel builds I have performed.
>
> The board has 5 pci slots, an onboard two channel (=> 30 devices??)
SCSI
> controller and an onboard 100 mHz ethernet controller. the SCSI
controller is
> supported by the 2.2.1 Adaptec AIC7xxx support. The Ethernet is
supported by
> the EtherExpressPro/100 driver.
>
> Needless to say the system is fast. A single precisiion FFT
(executing on a
> single processor) of a 512x512 image takes 0.11 seconds. My 266mHz
pentium II
> performs the same calculation in .38 seconds. Sorry for the non
standard
> benchmark. I tried to run Linpack, but the machine was too fast. I
got INF
> because of divide by zero (the clock hadn't had time to tick).
>
> don
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If I buy this board with one processor, can I buy a second proocessor
later
without the "stepping" problem (or similar) that we saw with the PPro?
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