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> Greetings,
>
> Help please. I intend to run Mandrake 7.0-2 (smp) on a dual-celeron motherboard.
>Abit BP6 specifically. Does anyone have any experience to share? Are there any
>issues (hardware, software, performance) with this motherboard? Many thanks. :-)
>
> CHAN Kin Poon
Yeah I do this configuration at one time. If you haven't bought
the motherboard yet, I would *NOT* recommend it. The BP6 is
not a stable motherboard. The HPT/366 controller in my
opinion is substandard to the promise controller.
I ran a dual 500 configuration, and the biggest issue
in my opinion is the weak 66mhz FSB when two processor
are trying to share it. Here is a little example,
it takes my wife's 300a o/c to 464 (100mhz FSB)
8 hours 20 minutes usally to do a seti packet,
it takes a single 500 on the BP6 around 10 hours
45 minutes, and DUAL 500's about 14hrs for each
packet -- but thats 2 packets in 28 hours..
I got rid of it for stability issues and the 66 FSB.
If you already have the motherboard, make sure you
update to QQ bios. The HPT/366 is flakey and
doesn't like the PCI devices to be overclocked.
I would look into another solution, but if the FSB
is not a big concern for you, then it should be ok,
hopefully the QQ 2 beta bios has worked out even
more kinks on this motherboard.
