Re: [newbie] smp questions
I would also add to the other coments here that cheap is not good. I have a friend here who swears by the prices of PCChips boards, and then swears at them when he comes to set them up!!! My personal recommendation is ABIT, they work very well, and don't use jumpers. The setup is virtually automatic, so is very easy. And they usually support AGP, PCI, and ISA, although newer boards have less ISA slots than most people would like. Oh, and they are an overclockers dream, as you can tweak speeds and voltage settings through the GUI. It only takes a quick reset on the motherboard if you totally screw things up. And they are only usually 10-20 pounds dearer than the cheaper ones. I believe the processors can be different speeds, but the faster one will be brought down to the speed of the slower one, so it's a bit pointless. I can't recommend any prices matching places, as I've always found something that is apparently cheap, gone to one of the supposedly more expensive websites, and found they've matched the price with free delivery! There's no better way than actually doing the legwork and checking out what they have directly. - Original Message - From: pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 4:07 AM Subject: [newbie] smp questions i have in mind doing some system hardware upgrades, one of the things that i am thinking about upgrading is my processor. i currently have a PII 350. my motherboard can support up to a 450. i am also considering getting a smp motherboard and a second chip. is there a good cheap motherboard that supports this, as well as agp, isa, and pci? do the two processors need to be the same speed? also, is there a better place to compare prices than cnet.com? tia :P
Re: [newbie] smp questions
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
Re: [newbie] smp questions
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
Re: [newbie] smp questions
pete moss wrote: i have in mind doing some system hardware upgrades, one of the things that i am thinking about upgrading is my processor. i currently have a PII 350. my motherboard can support up to a 450. i am also considering getting a smp motherboard and a second chip. is there a good cheap motherboard that supports this, as well as agp, isa, and pci? do the two processors need to be the same speed? also, is there a better place to compare prices than cnet.com? tia :P BP6 with dual celeron 300's is what I use
Re: [newbie] smp questions
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!
Re: [newbie] smp questions
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 Not so with the abit BP6
