[SunRescue] Multiprocessor intel boards (hate to interrupt the flamewar)

[Joshua D. Boyd]

The PS on the 486 should be easy to replace unless it is a really weird
one.  Any quad processor machine is a bit of a rarity.  ALR 6x6 boards
seem to be in abundance (a 6 CPU machine), but I think they still require
VRMs.  If you really want a quad system, I'd buy the VRMs what you have,
and if that board is bad, then I'd try to buy a new board off of ebay.
Your only real other alternative is to shell out for quad Xeons or to go
with non intell hardware.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Robert Novak wrote:

> I hate to interrupt the little flamewar about Linux with a question that
> might actually be worth the bandwidth... okay, I actually like to, but it
> sounds more deferential to the people wasting my diskspace with Irix and
> Linux holy wars to say it the former way...
> 
> Someone wrote:
> 
> > > Linux is known not to scale well on SMP systems - this might come as a
> > > suprise to you, but not many Linux developers have 32way machines at their
> > > disposal to test with! .. 2.4 is better, and improvements will continue to
> > > be made. Why does that upset you so much?
> 
> Does anyone have real life experience or recommended resources for getting
> Intel architecture motherboards that take more than two processors? I have
> a Compaq quad pentium pro system that requires a handful of VRM-type
> modules (and it's not worth $200+ to find out if it works), and a quad
> 486 box with a dead power supply.
> 
> I'd rather find something more conventional with 4 processors... can be
> Socket 5, Socket 7, Socket 8, Slot 1, PGA370... I suspect anything >2 cpu
> will require special power supplies, but a guy can hope, right?
> 
> --Rob (who chuckled when he saw the SunBlade 100 had a PGA370 socketed
> processor along with the pretty PC colored ports )
> 
> Robert Novak, Indyramp Consulting * rnovak at indyramp.com * indyramp.com/~rnovak
>         "And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
>            Maybe this year will be better than the last...." -- counting crows
> 
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