[plug] decent INTEL SMP boxes in Perth?

[xerodude]

Just a note....
I am running an abit BP6 with 2 celeron 400's. The system runs fine.

I am running it at 540Mhz with no stability hassles. Linux is very happy 
with 2 cpu's. I am monitoring the system temps and all is well. Mind you I 
have some fairly serious cooling on the cpu's and case.....

As for price... Here in Melbourne I paid $160 for the motherboard and $130 
for the C400's. This is from a shop.

Overclocking is a curly question. Do research at www.overclockers.com.

Just be careful with ata66 hard drives. The mobo has 2 sets of ide ports. 
One set is traditional ide and the other is ata66. So... effectively you 
can run 8 ide's. That might be handy for some. BUT.... the controller for 
the ata66 loads as a scsi device, and I am not sure how many people have 
successfully setup and run the ata66, especially as the boot Hdd. Linux 
drivers are available.(www.bp6.com)

Wayne.

At 01:07 pm 22/10/99 +0800, you wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Garry wrote:
>
> > I haven't used this, and perhaps if there is experience in the group, 
> someone
> > might like to comment on reliablilty..
>
>Overclocking your CPU might be fine for a home machine, but for a
>production system, especially one where you are going to be doing
>CPU-intensive calculations, and you are going to want accurate results,
>it is a very bad idea.
>
> > 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.
>
>Seems a bit on the expensive side.
>The BP6 can be bought for about $300, and you can buy 2 Celeron 400A's for
>about $150 each.
>
>  - Matt