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  From: Andrew Hill <list@fornax.net>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:18:35 +1030

Re: multi processor performance

Simon Lindsay wrote:
> 
> Dual Celeron 500's is quite nice in the Abit BP6, compiling a kernel with
> make -j 16 is almost twice as fast as normal. http://www.bp6.com/ for
> independant reviews advice etc.
> 
> If you're finding yourself cpu bound, this is a nice board. Make sure
> you've got lots of memory as well.

Although I had a few problems with the BP6 and my Western Digital ATA/66
Drive (the BIOS kept picking up strange settings when rebooting when the
drive was plugged in), so I upgraded to an MSI dual Xeon board with
slocket adapters for my Celerons. Works like a dream.

Mmmmm, 1 CPU for Linux, 1 for VMware :-)
-- 

Andrew Hill

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