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  From: Simon Lindsay <simon@iweb.net.au>
  To  : Andrew Hill <list@fornax.net>
  Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:33:41 +1030 (CST)

Re: multi processor performance

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Andrew Hill wrote:

> 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.

The original BIOS was a bit dodgy, but the upgrades seem to have fixed the
ata/66 bugs for windows, I didnt use the ata66 for linux.

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