Re: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread Randy Kramer
John Hokanson Jr. wrote: My questions is esentially asking for what would yield the best speed boost? I'm leaning toward dual PPros, but not if there are known SMP problems under Linux. I'm also intending on upgrading the RAM. Almost without asking the next question, my suggestion is to

Re: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Saturday 27 October 2001 09:33 am, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:06:09 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] With these concerns aside, you are probably still better off with an extra Pentium Pro. My guess would be that your kind of board is better optimised for PPro, and that

Re: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:06:09 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, here's the deal. My Linux box is currently a Pentium Pro 200Mhz (256 L2 cache) with 64 megs of RAM (esentially it's an workstation that used to run NT). I don't want to get rid of it because it's got a

RE: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread Franki
I'd go the two pentium pro 200's myself, with a good dose of ram... but there wouldn't be alot in it either way I'd say... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Hokanson Jr. Sent: Sunday, 28 October 2001 12:06 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:47:50 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 October 2001 09:33 am, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:06:09 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] With these concerns aside, you are probably still better off with an extra Pentium

Re: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Saturday 27 October 2001 10:09 am, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:47:50 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 October 2001 09:33 am, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:06:09 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] With these concerns aside, you

RE: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread Franki
October 2001 1:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions... On Saturday 27 October 2001 10:09 am, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:47:50 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 October 2001 09:33 am, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09

Re: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread Randy Kramer
John Hokanson Jr. wrote: I'm guessing that I'll get the other PPro, making sure they're the same steping. I'll also look into getting 512k models, as well as punching my RAM up to 128mb or 256mb.. If you do both (add RAM and add a second processor) it would be interesting (to me, at least) to