RE: Suggestions for new machine please
Sorry, I can't answer your question but I can recommend the Tualatin especially with the intel S815EBM1 mobo and Infineon RAM. Although no ECC, together with a 3wrae RAID I have uptimes now for almost 2 years. And the 1.13 verision is affordable and has plenty of reserve-power for my needs. -Harry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi It was early of the year 2000 when I got very good suggestions from here to buy BX based motherboard, if any. I'm glad I did so... I have been using my old trusty BX-based system without any problems, but it's time for faster ride. As I'll want to help with SMP which seems to be slowly gaining weight, am considering dual-processor system. Current dual-Xeon systems are too expensive, PIII is old (good and cool) technology, but 1,4Ghz Tualatin price is about the same as 2Ghz Athlon XP.. which brings me to the dual-Athlon solution. What do you guys think about Asus A7M266-D and two Athlon XP 2400+ processors? The information circulating around 'Net claims that XP and MP are the same processors and with slight modification XP's will work just fine as MP's. Actually I've seen dual-XP's on this particular mobo, but these were 1,7Ghz with Palomino core. What about memory bandwidth, it's using older memory as I see. Any hidden traps, besides cooling of course? Or am I on the wrong track and catching up the long gone train.. Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Suggestions for new machine please
- Original Message - From: Vallo Kallaste [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 12:59 PM Subject: Suggestions for new machine please Hi It was early of the year 2000 when I got very good suggestions from here to buy BX based motherboard, if any. I'm glad I did so... I have been using my old trusty BX-based system without any problems, but it's time for faster ride. As I'll want to help with SMP which seems to be slowly gaining weight, am considering dual-processor system. Current dual-Xeon systems are too expensive, PIII is old (good and cool) technology, but 1,4Ghz Tualatin price is about the same as 2Ghz Athlon XP.. which brings me to the dual-Athlon solution. What do you guys think about Asus A7M266-D and two Athlon XP 2400+ processors? The information circulating around 'Net claims that XP and MP are the same processors and with slight modification XP's will work just fine as MP's. Actually I've seen dual-XP's on this particular mobo, but these were 1,7Ghz with Palomino core. What about memory bandwidth, it's using older memory as I see. Any hidden traps, besides cooling of course? Or am I on the wrong track and catching up the long gone train.. Thanks -- Vallo Kallaste [EMAIL PROTECTED] A good choice except for the XP's, use the MP as that requires no modification to the CPU to get it to work in SMP mode. The XP requires a minor mod (Joining contacts on the CPU, like the multiplier unlock hack). The other trap is make sure you have a high-end PSU. The A7M266-D has hefty PSU requirements, so I'd go for a PC Power Supply Cooling unit with at least 450 Watts (The Mobo requires 400 Watts). Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Suggestions for new machine please
Vallo Kallaste wrote: [ ... ] Current dual-Xeon systems are too expensive, PIII is old (good and cool) technology, but 1,4Ghz Tualatin price is about the same as 2Ghz Athlon XP.. which brings me to the dual-Athlon solution. What do you guys think about Asus A7M266-D and two Athlon XP 2400+ processors? Noisy. One machine I have is an XP 1800+ with ISO-9660 OEM version of the boxed 5000 RPM fan, and I wish it were quieter. You're going to have more than twice the power usage as I do, so be prepared for some serious cooling requirements. Also be sure to get something like an dual-fan Enermax 430W PS, or something comparible. The information circulating around 'Net claims that XP and MP are the same processors and with slight modification XP's will work just fine as MP's. To generalize, a CPU maker creates a wafer which should produce all MP chips. However, AMD only tests the SMP portion for each die sold as an MP chip. CPUs sold as XP either haven't had the SMP portion tested, or have failed the SMP tests (but passed everything else). Most XPs will work as MP, apparently, but you're running outside of spec, and if you have problems, it'll be your problem. You can pick up MP 2000+'s for about the same price as XP 2400+'s. If I wanted to work on SMP code, I'd probably get the real MP's, so I spend my time working on code problems, not going nuts trying to find errors in code when the crash was due to an intermittant hardware glich. YMMV. -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
