Re: Twin Celeries on dual board

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Richard wrote:

> I've got a URL that refers to this with instructions but I'd like to
> get hold of someone with some experience before I buy and butcher
> some hardware (nothing like a four pound engineers hammer :-) (whilst
> smiling and polishing it)).

I've not used this combo, but note that you don't necessarily have to
'butcher' the hardware, however fun that is ;)) You can get adaptors from
various places that will 'adjust' Celerys for use on dual-p2 boards
without the chop-chop-chop. From what I've heard it can be difficult to
alter manually - I remember hearing stuff about dicky core voltages and
thermal instability.

However, it is a nice combo on price/performance ratios - typical bundles
I've seen are 2 X Celery 466, EPoX Dual boards a couple of large heat
dissipation devices. SMP is getting better on linux all the time, I
suspect you can get some good benchmarks off a machine like that.

Cheers,

Alex.

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