Multi Processor mobo for p3?

[morkus64]

Anyone know of a good multi (dual or more... preferably more) processor board for socket 370 p3s?

Danke!

 

[mechBgon]

Couple on this page: http://www.hypermicro.com/dept.asp?dept_id=34-004 The SAI2 might be worth a peek. Too bad they're out of the STL2, which has onboard Ultra160 and onboard SCSI-2

 

[cronic]

i have an abit bp6. which is a dual socket 370 motherboard.

 

[morkus64]

thanks, cronic, but i'm looking for full dual piii, not celeron

 

[mechBgon]

I take it you have the CPUs already? Because as a former dual-P3 owner (twice!), I would take an AthlonXP 2500+ any day. Don't spend more on this than it's worth.

Also check your P3 steppings carefully, there are several fun pitfalls for the people who don't do their research on P3's.

 

[phaxmohdem]

Abit made another mobo for PIII CPu's like you are looking for I bought the BP6 thinking I could pop in my dual PIII 1GHz chips but I was wrong.

The PIII abit board is called the "VP6"

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...675&category=1244&ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1

This bad boy still sells for about the price of a normal Socket 939 board. IT has rave reviews, and is perhaps one of the best non-server oriented PIII dual boards. IMO I would purchase that one.

BTW... Need two matching PIII 1GHz cpus I'll sell em cheap

 

[phaxmohdem]

Heh... Just remembered, I know where I could get my hands on an 8 way PIII 700 Xeon Proliant 8500 too. Not Socket 370 but definately pimp

 

[morkus64]

interesting...

so how much is cheap, phaxmohdem?

 

[phaxmohdem]

mmmmm like $50 bucks shipped for the both of em. (If you're in the US)

 

[morkus64]

pmed you

 

[phaxmohdem]

lol when I frist read that I thought you said pwn3d. haha I was like WTF.... anyways, reply sent.

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: phaxmohdem
lol when I frist read that I thought you said pwn3d. haha I was like WTF.... anyways, reply sent.

Waht did he really say?

 

[DJMiX]

when buying a USED VP6, be careful

Most of these boards are hit with bad caps, and it would mean you have to get it rma from abit or replaced them yourself.


VP6 gets another vote from me very good board...
owned 3 , all needed to replace caps but worked execellent after recapping

 

[phaxmohdem]

Originally posted by: keeleysam

Waht did he really say?

pmed = PM'd = Private Messaged Crazy jargon.

 

[NokiaDude]

Seriously, a single AMD 2500+ will spank a dually P3 rig.

 

[phaxmohdem]

Perhaps, but having a dually just has something cool about it. I can completely feel for this guy. I own 2 Dually PIII machines, 1 dually 366 celeron (@550), 1 dually PII, and one dually Pentium Pro. They make excellent servers, I actually benchmarked Apache on three different and when concurrency of the connections rose, My dual PPro 200 was faster than a single Athlon XP 2600+ http://www.auctionspice.com/misc/apachebench.xls <--linky

Granted these are Benchmarks not real world.... but we thrive on Benches here right?

Bottom line. Duallies = cool no matter what speed. (IMO)

 

[morkus64]

I agree... I'm trying to decide at the moment though if i can afford a dually... it might have to wait a little while.

phax - can you give me a couple days to get back to you? I need to see how finances are

 

[phaxmohdem]

Yeah NP. The CPU's sure aren't going anywhere soon Just sittin in a tray

 

[networkman]

MSI 694D Pro 2

I had a bunch of these boards(four at one point) running for the Anandtech Seti@Home team a few years back; excellent board, had no problems whatsoever.

 

[morkus64]

networkman - don't happen to be selling one for cheap, do you?

phax - thanks, i'll let you know