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List:       linux-smp
Subject:    Re: PPro 166/512k prices
From:       "Adam D. McKenna" <adam () flounder ! net>
Date:       1998-08-28 19:18:15
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In line with what Bob was saying, you can buy PPro 180's (256k) for under
$100 on pricewatch, and a few places are selling dual PPro motherboards
(Intel brand) for around $80..

Even PPro 200's are a steal now that the Xeon's are out..  The 256k 200's
are less than $200...

--Adam
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Adam D. McKenna
adam@flounder.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Drzyzgula <bob@drzyzgula.org>
To: Tim Parker <timp@redac.co.uk>; Bob Drzyzgula <bob@drzyzgula.org>
Cc: linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Friday, August 28, 1998 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: PPro 166/512k prices


On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 01:56:05PM +0100, Tim Parker wrote:
>
> Couldn't find that many deals on the quad boards period (and basically
> none UK side), apart from the one Bob found, I noticed Aberdeen are
> selling Goliaths for ~1000 USD - very sparse apart from that. Having
> said that if that if the IPC rate and interleaving isn't that vital,
> for 2500 dollars you could very nearly get 8 x W6-Li with 2x166/512
> and 128M each, which could be the start of something beautiful :)
>
> Cheers  Tim
>
> Addnd. just this second noticed that Centrix have some PR440FX boards in
> for 95 USD which would probably work out a bit cheaper than the
> Micronics board after getting the NIC and SCSI (unless you want to use
> ISA cards or already have em)

Yes, and from this perspective, Computer Geeks is also
selling, for $109 each, a Tyan Thunder II ATX Dual PII
board with Dual Adaptec SCSI, LX Chipset and four DIMM
slots. I just recieved an order of 20 of them at work,
and they are spotless, brand new in a white box; I'm
only about half-way through building my first system
with one of them, so I can't report on performance.
They do require a *BIG* ATX case, however.

With 333MHz PIIs selling around $300, and 64MB SDRAM
selling around $80, one should be able to put together
a dual 333MHz system with 128MB memory, 4GB 7200rpm SCSI
disk, and all the usual other stuff for about $1300 or so.

Progress can be so frustrating sometimes...

--Bob

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