On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Singer XJ Wang wrote: > For a Duel Processing System, I recommend the Asus P2B-D or P2B-DS > Mothboard. It uses an Intel 440BX Chipset, UDMA-33 Connectors, 4xDIMM > Sockets [up to 1 Gig]. AGP, blah. The DS also has an U2W [80MB/s] SCSI > Connectors build on. > > Why am I recommending this? > > Well, at this lab in the university here we run the following: > Duel PIII-500's > Asus P2B-D > 12GIG UDMA HDDs (Quantum) > > and we use LINUX RedHat (sorry, Mandrake but Guassian98 requires RedHat) > and this Gaussian98 program runs up to two weeks for one execution for us > and it wil keep both procesors loaded at 100% 99% of that time and during > our 2 month of use with that thing, we have had no problems > Sorry about the bellow TOP Dump, accident. Flamers - Yeah, I know the P2Bs are expensive, but they are wort it. > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 5879 wang 17 0 19512 19M 19288 R 0 99.9 3.7 36:27 > l703.exe > 5971 wang 17 0 19508 19M 19284 R 0 99.2 3.7 1:25 > l703.exe > 5972 root 1 0 1036 1036 836 R 0 0.7 0.2 0:00 top > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: > > > Seth Gibson wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: > > > > two processors need to be the same speed? also, is there a better place > > > > to compare prices than cnet.com? > > > I would give pricewatch.com a shot. They have smp boards for as low as 69 but > > > that might not necessarily be your best bet. If you're looking for a certain > > > board i'd check pricewatch for it tho. Good Luck! > > > > Yes SMP processors must be the same speed. > > Jeanette > > > >
