At 18:15 6/08/99 -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote:
>Any issues with the Abit BP6 motherboard and linux SMP? I have a 33 MB/s IDE
>drive and was thinking of putting in a pair of celerons pre-tested at 550
>MHz.
Hi There
I eagerly got a BP6 once they arrived in Australia and stuck a
pair of 366's in them, the performance is very impressive, kernel compiles
are very close to my dual PII 350 at home. Ok so these are not very
scientific measurements but I have seen non of the 'slugish' performance
reported but others. Its probably not suited to compute intensive work but
for the home hacker its a very good little unit.
Some concerns I had were the onboard UDMA/66 channels seam to confuse LILO
and I had to reinstall RH6 after I switched the IDE drive from my old Cyrex
MII 300 (a big improvement). No big deal, worked fine after that.
The other concern is heat. The board is fairly well layed out, but the
voltage regulators are very close to one of the CPU's and while the CPU's
barely break a sweat, even while running for days doing RC5, the voltage
regulators pump out a fair bit of heat.
No overclocking information as I don't want to do it, I have oly got old
PC66 RAM in the board and I don't want to start another crusade :)
It's also a BIG board, as are all dual boards so get a BIG case and a BIG
power supply.
Cheers
Dave Cheney
Network Admin
The Faculty of Law
The University of Melbourne
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