Am using mine scince a week now,
some things to add:
* acording to a test in C't the memory-bandwith is quite low but the
test ran with 66MHz
and at 104MHz it's real fast over here
Dave Cheney wrote:
>
> 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.
Can't report any performance-breaks too. Just some minor things
definately related to
the Celeri-Caches.
>
> 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.
I didn't use them but it's good to hear they're working fine with Linux.
:)
>
> 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.
Same experience(CPUs just 1�C hotter than the board but pretty warm
VRMs),
a better power-supply-fan solved it.
>
> 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 :)
Rock-Stable at every Speed the processors can do, CPUs can do every
speed in dual the slowest one can do in single; voltage-tweaks for every
CPU
independently possible.
>
> It's also a BIG board, as are all dual boards so get a BIG case and a BIG
> power supply.
Would it work with lnsensors if I atach some I2C/SMB -sensors to the
SMB-Connector?
Maybe atach the SMB-Bus of 2 other boards to check such stuff
centralized? (I2C is multi-master capable.)
Or atach the parallel-port of a small one emulating an I2C-Bus to check
the sensors from there?
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave Cheney
> Network Admin
> The Faculty of Law
> The University of Melbourne
Marcus
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