RE: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-15 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I am in the course of building a dual p3 system. What I've got now is a TYAN 1832 dual processor board, specs are at http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tiger100_p.html. It uses the Intel 440BX AGPset, and is the same board that VALinux uses in their dual processor system, specs

Re: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-14 Thread Nate Amsden
Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > > Hi Debians! > > I want to buy a new computer. My old one is a five year old P100. > > I want to set up a little debian network: > > The new server -- the old P100 -- a SUN LX as XTerminal -- a not yet > bought notebook -- and a 486 as router for the internet or sec

Re: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:56:27AM -0500, Sean wrote: > The main drawbacks to SMP, in my mind, are the additional cost (which I > really don't think is much of a drawback because I think you get > significantly better performance ... but others would probably disagree), The big question on perfo

Re: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-14 Thread Sean
The first computer I ever got was a home assembled dual Pentium Pro machine. At the time all I could afford was one processor, but a year or so later I got a second. Ever since that time I've been completely hooked on SMP. The second machine I got, and the one I currently use as my main machine

Re: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-14 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, dual processor systems are only really usefull when they have to perform several tasks parallel. Unless your kids are planning to play heavy games (if there are heavy games for X) a simple single processor system will do fine. I think you will do better investing in much memory, because server