[plug] decent INTEL SMP boxes in Perth?

[Garry]

I haven't used this, and perhaps if there is experience in the group, someone
might like to comment on reliablilty..

Abit makes a dual Celeron board, will take any of the Celerons, and they are
apparently best served by the 300A chips. These give easier options for
overclocking, I am told.
Been told the dual 300As overclocked to ~450Mhz on an OS that understands
multiprocessors fairly hums.

There is a dealer in Manning (saw in the weekend paper) doing a deal with the
Abit BP6 m/b and 2 x celeron 300A chips for ~$500 I think.

Garry.


David Griffiths wrote:

> Does anyone have a good knowledge Perth suppliers of reliable dual (or
> better yet, quad!) cpu systems that run linux happily? (Or better yet,
> actually support linux on the systems provided).
>
> So far I've looked at the Dell and HP (XL550 looks promising shipping with
> Red Hat) offerings, have yet to check out IBM, Acer, Gateway and Compaq.
>
> The only quad capable system I've seen so far is SGI's 1400L server - but a
> system with 11 fans is probably a bit of overkill for what we want to do
> (photochemical smog modelling).
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dave.
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