(I don't have much experience building SMP machines but I do have one running
here... Also, others may have comments on what I have ignored)
On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> hd 13.2GB_7200_HD
If you are expecting UDMA/66 (?) to work happily with Linux, you should be
careful... you need to patch your kernel and even then, it may not work.
However, everything is backwards compatible so it should be okay.
> lan 3Com_905TXNM_PCI_oem
My understanding is that the 509's are better-supported than the 905's. This
could simply be a rumour or a drugged hallucination.
> cpu Celeron_366_Socket370
It's almost impossible to find anything slower than 450 for sale any more. 466
seems to be the sweet spot. If you can find two celeron 366's for sale NEW,
great.
> Abit BP6 Dual Socket 370 Motherboard
> Intel Celeron 366 PPGA Processor Overclockable To 550Mhz
> Two Global-Win PPGA Heatsink Fan
> 128MB SDRAM For PC-133
I'd pick up some thermal paste as well (Radio Shack sells it as heatsink
compound for a few bucks). Also, I see no reason to go for PC-133 RAM as the
celerons run at 66 Mhz FSB. Still, it may be worth it for you. Please note
that while some people find the BP6 dual-celeron system very overclockable, it
is harder to do than a regular system. In addition, heat can be a serious
problem, more so than a regular single-cpu system. For this reason, I wouldn't
count on being able to overclock if I was you.
--
Christopher Thompson http://hypocrite.org/
The unexamined life is not worth living
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