Re: Debian Slink/Potato w/SMP
cooling in my case is *excellent*, like i said the cpu never gets to 35C,
and i got a high quality power supply, high RPM fans, overtemp
alarm..etc..by contrast when i first got the machine(before i added all
the extras) CPUs routinely exceeded 52C.
in terms of SMP i'd reccomend an ASUS board(worked good for me thus far,
going since april running seti@home) and supermicro(excellent) i dont
have *personal* experience using anything else other then those and the
bp6.
BP6 im sure is a find board for most, but from what i've seen it is the
minority rather then the majority who run it trouble-free. If you(or
someone you know) has a BP6 a good test is to run 10 copies of seti@home
at the same time(with 128MB of ram do 15 if there is 256MB) and let it run
for a day. My K6-2 366(o/c from 300 on a 430TX board) can do 10x without
a hitch, the hdd light is on virtually the whole time. My BP6 runs about
2 minutes before a hard lock. I have no IDE, only SCSI, and only quality
expansion devices(only thing that changed was the mainboard and
cpus) using 2 boxed intel 466 cpus not overclocked, and 2x128MB PC100
SDRAM running @66mhz.
with all the machines i've built i have no doubt it is a screwy
board. not that there is anything i can do about it, the first few weeks
i thought it was a linux problem(kernel 2.2.12) by the time i concluded
that it was indeed the board i was out of warranty.
my 0.02 take it for what its worth, avoid the BP6 if stability is one of
the top concerns.
nate
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
morphe >Wednesday, December 22, 1999, 1:34:26 PM, aphro wrote:
morphe >> and take a look at my case..
morphe >
morphe >> http://www.firetrail.com/~aphro/camera/inside-the-beast.jpg
morphe >> http://www.firetrail.com/~aphro/camera/the-outside.jpg
morphe >
morphe > Well, no offense, but did you really expect decent cooling in that small
morphe >of a case?
morphe >
morphe > If not the BP6, then what would people recommend?
morphe >
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