Shane J Pearson wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > On 11/10/2005, at 7:03 AM, Matthew Weigel wrote: >> >> Have you considered a multi-port card...? > > I did. I was hoping to find a quad port fxp, but couldn't find one.
Why not look at quad-port GigE cards? I know for sure em(4) has available quad-port cards. > seem to find it this time. I will be avoiding the 256k and 512k L2 > cache UltraSPARC's from now on. 256k L2 and the awful IDE > performance make this little U5 pretty slow as a desktop. It doesn't make it any faster as a server, either. ;-) I've got an Ultra-Wide or Ultra2 SCSI card in my Ultra 10, and it seems to make a world of difference; the IDE controller is only used for the DVD drive. > 300MHz macppc is WAY faster than my U10, out of interest. Would > people recommend a U60 or U80? Having the decent L2 caches which > they can come with? I think the U60/80 would be overkill, since you won't get the extra processors... and I'm not sure how much the extra cache will help. Cache isn't always a winning way to go faster; it's only useful while instructions and data that get cached get accessed multiple times. Once your cache gets large enough, adding more doesn't accomplish anything. -- Matthew Weigel hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
