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The is the name I'm giving to my new workstation that I'm building
up. At the moment I have a machine a bit like this...
GigaByte 586HX m/board (6x72 pin simm)
My trusty Cyrix 166+ just doesn't have enough grunt anymore - even with 88Mb of memory.You can see the parts I am using, and how it is configured below... |
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| I would love to have a multi processor AMD K6-2 or similar machine, but, as they are not supported in the Intel MP specification, I've gone for 'Intel instead' tm. At the moment I'm going to go for either 2x 333 or 2x 350 processors. Thats about 650 - 700 Bogomips right? | |||||||||||||||||||
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I will be using a SuperMicro Dual PII motherboard (Super P6DBE) with a BX chipset - it has loads of clock multiplier settings - and I can go up to around 2x650Mhz (wow!), imagine 1300 Bogomips compared to 134.5 I get now!!!! 
The first memory to be stuck in the machine will be a single 128Mb, 100Mhz SDRAM - leaving 3 DIMM slots free, another 128Mb will probably be added soon after, taking the total up to 256mb. 
For the disk sub-system I'm sticking to UDMA IDE at the moment but if I can get a Adaptec 3940 cheap... :-) 
I'm not so sure about the video system right now, and I'm not entirely convinced about AGP either; as yet no AGP card is faster than a PCI card by more than about 5%. Possible candidates are a Diamond Viper V330 (nVidia chip) or Matrox Millenium either 1 or 2, I don't care - but I want 8mb version (16mb would be nice!). I'm not so bothered about 3d performance - hence the Millenium1 or 2 , but I want 24bit colour upto 1600x1200 (I want a fecking huge X desktop!) - if only there was a 8mb Diamond Viper :( 
No multi processor support in Windows 95, but why would I need it if I am running Linux/SMP ! I am also considering getting a version of Be-OS for Intel once a newer version is released, supposedly it is very good on multiprocessor machines. Maybe I chould get another 4.3Gb disk and stick Linux on its' own disk, with another disk split between Be-OS, possibly NT, Dos/Win (for games), and maybe SCO-Unix - how about this:
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