Greg Vence wrote: >Hello, > >Its time to upgrade... What dual Pentium machines do people like and >what have known problems? I looked in LDP and didn't see anything >regarding this topic. > >Thanx -- Greg. >
I would suggest subscribing to linux-smp, and look at the archives for the list, too. I asked this question a week or two ago and then decided that the Cyrix 200+ with a Gigabyte 586S board was the best for the money(*). Look at http://www.linux.org.uk/SMP/title.html for SMP Linux info, or look at http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-smp/ for mailing list archives. If you ask for general information on motherboards, you will probably be asked to look on the web for information. The place I was refered and re-refered to was http://sysdoc.pair.com/mainboard.html, but chop off the filename for lots of general hardware information. > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . >Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . (*): the board seems to have trouble with serial mice, and probably serial anything. It has two PCI devices that are "unknown PCI devices" to linux. The board has support for the Cyrix 200+ which means it can generate a 75 MHz bus clock, without which the 200+ becomes a 160+ to 170+ or thereabouts. Also, the board and CPU segfault without the Cyrix patch, and also sometimes with it. I have been playing with the RAM settings to see if I can get it more stable; so far it seems good, but I haven't tested it much yet. You might want to email me before you buy one of these, I am going to do some more testing tonight. Also see the other sources above of course. [EMAIL PROTECTED]/GNU--1.3---Linux--2.0.30--- $ sync sync: error, already sinking -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
