> I've been told that there aren't 4-processor motherboards
> for Pentium II, so I went to motherboard.com and found [only] two
> reasonable-looking PCI motherboards.
>
> ABIT BP6 ($150) http://www.mssi.com/bp62.htm
> IWILL DBD100 ($185) http://www.mssi.com/dbd100.htm
>
> BP6 has DMA66 that I don't really need it with an old hard drive.
> OTOH, it only has 3 SDRAM slots, while DBD100 has four.
> DBD100 claims to be tunable to 133Mhz, but BP6 is "jumperless"
> (everything is controlled by software)
The BP6 is a dual celeron board (2x socket 370's), so not much use to you,
the board has 4 ide controllers (2xudma33 from a piix4 and 2xudma66 from a
hrt(I think) contoller). I haven't heard anything about the iwill board, I
run a Gigabyte 6DBX with 2xPII 400's on it, it cost me 120UKP. I have had
no problems with it. (That weren't of my own making :)
You are correct that there are no 4 way PII boards as the PII is only 2
way capable.
Max RAM from 3 slots is 768M and from 4 slots is 1024M BTW
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