What to do?

[gino X]

Alright guys, here's my question. I'm keeping a dual P2 processor board, but I need to get processors for it.

Should I sell the P2 board and go get a P3 board and processors? Cost factor is important since I'm in a tight budget. I am in no hurry to acquire the equipment.

Thanx guys

[Telexen]

Pentium 3's are far from cheap, so I would avoid them if you really don't need them...but it really depends on what you need it for.

I'd love to have dual P2's myself.

[gino X]

I planned on using it for FaD and game server (one server each)

Yes, they are far from cheap, especially the M/B

[win2kuser]

The P2's will do ya just fine.

I have a dual P2-333 mobo and chips running FaD and get a cpu rating of 26 for each chip (52 combined) which is higher than my Athlon 750 at a rating of 51.

Had a hard time setting up SMP on Win2K though as it's an old board and I couldn't get the onboard scsi raid to work (no drivers).

Crunches quite nicely though

hth

[gino X]

Ok, I've decided to setup a dual-P2 system. I've got the M/B covered, along with NIC/Video/Other Hardware.

What I am lost at is where to find P2 processors. Most stores dont sell them with the HS/Fans.

But first, I need to test the board to confirm that it works.

win2kuser, what apps do u use for SMP on W2k aside from FaD?

It would be nice if you still remember how to set FaD for SMP

[win2kuser]

gino x:

I don't use that mobo for anything other than fad. As for supported applications, I wouldn't have a clue.

To set fad up with dual processors, install as normal. - Thats it, Think will automatically select two instances of fad.

If it doesn't, goto the fad control panel, and under the options tab, select the number of copies of Think as 2.

I seem to notice that one processor runs slightly faster than the other even though they both have the same cpu rating. Must be something to do with Win2K, maybe it uses only one for the general desktop running etc.

You will notice that once up and running jobs, the Think server will have two jobs allocated and running (one for each chip), I thought it may have used the power of both chips on a job at a time, but it doesn't.

hth

Glad to see your 'hooked' and expanding your crunching ability



Mark.

[gino X]

Ah, thanx for showing me.
Maybe I should just haul in my P3 computer for game server/FaD

Do you know of any good places to acquire working P2s with HS/Fan?

Yes, w2k uses one processors for desktop, unless you set Processor Affinity to 2 processors. I'm not clear as to set that up.

[Scott Tiger]

If I were looking for p2 processors I'd head to ebay. Last time I looked they had quite a few listed there for next to nothing.

[davidamarkley]

Here ya go...

Intel Pentium II Xeon 400MHz 1MB cache for $19.

Intel Pentium II Xeon 450MHz 512k cache for $34.99.

Intel Pentium II Xeon 450MHz 1MB cache for $49.99.

HTH,

David

[gino X]

David, your info is very accurate, but are all dual P2 boards accept Xeon?

My board is a Micronics (now is it MSI?) 1997(?)

I just got it from a neighbor who was about to throw it away so there aren't many facts here.