[SunRescue] OT: dual PPro mb's...

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, March 29, 2001 at 18:26:05 (-0800), Peter L. Wargo wrote: ]
> Subject: [SunRescue] OT: dual PPro mb's...
>
> On Ebay, dutch auction for TYAN dual Ppro motherboards, $100 ea with
> CPU's.  Tempting to build a low-end linux box... :-)
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1225006475

With only 256KB cache they are *NOT* going to out-perform any 500MHz
Pentium-II or similar, especialy not with any older linux or FreeBSD
which can only get about 50% or less extra power out of the 2nd CPU.
 
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