RE: [WinMac] cheap and fast NT server
John Hanks(jbh[at]biology.usu.edu)
Mon, 4 Oct 1999 22:34:44 -0600
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I have (so far) built 4 machines with the ABIT BP6 and have found it to be
very reliable with both Linux and NT4.0 Workstation. The BP6 has 2 socket
370 sockets and only accepts ppga celerons. There is a dedicated website at
www.bp6.com with stories of overclocking, setup tips, drivers, etc. They
claim to be able to install NT onto UDMA/66 drives, and I plan to try that
with the next machine which I will build later this week. For 2 of the
machines I used Celeron 500s without overclocking and the other 2 have 366s
overclocked to 523 (they worked fine at 550, but I was paranoid about the
temp. control in the rooms they are in). I haven't installed more than 128MB
of RAM in any of them and won't until prices drop.
I benchmarked my machines and they faired pretty well (beating or nearly
matching) PentiumIII 500s at everything CPU related. Disk performance wasn't
spectacular but I'm hoping UDMA/66 will help this.
This thread is pushing the limits of WinMac Cooperation, but I'd be happy to
share my experiences off-line with anyone interested. This is a very cheap
way to put together a reliable and speedy dual cpu machine. A BP6
motherboard and 2 366 celerons are roughly the same cost as a single PIII
500 (without a motherboard). I've heard rumors of 400s overclocked past
600Mhz.
I suppose I could keep it within the WinMac umbrella by mentioning how well
they run Linux+Samba+netatalk....
jbh
John Hanks
System Administrator
Dept. of Biology
Utah State University
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