You might want to buy your abit board from pcnut. They can give you a pair of
celeron 366s that have been pretested at 550 MHz. Their testing process seems
to be a good one.
-- Stephen
Byron Harris wrote:
> Matt,
>
> I started building a box this weekend with the Abit BP6. It's working
> pretty well. I'm still in the overclock tweaking stage. Currently I'm
> running 2 Celeron 366's overclocked at to 523MHz. I installed RedHat 6.0.
> I didn't have to do anything special, RedHat's install came up in SMP
> mode.
>
> One thing, if you overclock, be sure and set "Speed Error Hold:" to
> disabled. This caused me some problems.
>
> Here are a few good links to info on the BP6:
> A very complete review, at least read this.
> http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/bp6/default.asp
>
> This is a very interesting shootout of dual PIII 500's vs dual Celeron
> 300a's overclocked to 504.
> http://arstechnica.com/cpu/3q99/smp/smp-1.html
>
> Other reviews.
> http://www.ars-technica.com/reviews/3q99/bp6/bp6-1.html
> http://www.overclockers.com/articles28/
> http://www.anandtech.com/html/review_display.cfm?document=1002
>
> Have fun,
> Byron
>
> ----------
> From: Matt Brady[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 5:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Abit BP6 Dual Socket370 Motherboard
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am interested in building a SMP linux box, and found the Abit BP6
> motherboard is avialable from a local supplier (at about 1/2 the cost of
> other dual boards (slot1))
>
> Has anyone found any problems with this board? or would i be better to
> steer away from dual socket370, and stay with the Slot 1 arhitecture??
>
> Any asistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Matt
>
> http://www.abit.com.tw/english/product/bp6.htm
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