When do you think the bp6 is outdated?

iSDn · Post by **iSDn** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 9:21 pm

Hi!

See topic title

And which dual board will be your next?

I think i'll use my BP6 the next 2 or 3 years as my main pc and then i'll get a new dualboard...i hope abit will come up then with something beautiful like the bp6!

Bye.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:45 pm

never!!!

hehe

i still use my ol bp6.. and will continue to do so until it goes PFFT

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 7:53 am

I'm looking for a Tyan S2507T. I have a Asus P3C-D mainboard but I haven't got processors or memory for it, yet.

Post by **Derek** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 11:45 am

I think the BP6 will always be around because it was a flagship motherboard.

I think you may find it a little on the slow side (running two Celerons) when compared to the latest 64bit Athlon and the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, but it still packs a (small) punch. You can extend the life of the BP6 by modding it for dual P3s.

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 1:02 pm

Agreed. I will be making my BP6's do specific tasks (server, firewall, etc.) when I get a newer dual mainboard up and running.

BP6 Forever!

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 1:42 pm

Don't forget the BeOS option (InactiveX gets back on his hobby-horse again).

BeOS races along on slower duallies, in a way that the average Windows user wouldn't believe.

www.bebits.com

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 2:02 pm

I think the next duallie I build will not be Intel.

They never wanted the Celeron to SMP, and IIRC only P4 Xeons will dance together nowadays.

AMD, on the other hand, seem much happier for their customers to run two CPUs. I've built a couple of dual AthlonMP workstations, and the people I built them for have been very satisfied indeed.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 4:02 pm

yeah

i think the amd side will be much better

amd have always been better processors to overclock anyway

im interested in a dual athlon system myself

RRLedford · Post by **RRLedford** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 11:21 pm

When my 1ST (of 3) BP6s died the Bad Capacitor death, I replaced it with an Acorp Dual-P3 board that was supposed to take Tualatin CPUs with Lin-Lin adapters. Well, it did - but would only clock detect them at the 100MHz initial FSB speed & OC-ing could barely even get me up to their native 133 ratring.
Then I got an MSI dual-P3 VIA chipset board with DDR-266MHz RAM & Promise RAID onboard (10/100 LAN too). This runs my dual P-3/1.266GHz/512K CPUs at up to 1.4GHz OK (so far). But, my benchmarks suck on the memory performance - only 600MB/s with PC2700/2-2-2 RAM at FSB=140/280MHz. This is so dog slow I can't believe the Sandra2002 benchmark. I'm ready to bail out on the whole P-3 thing & jump over to Dual AMD boards!

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 12:33 pm

IIRC, VIA chipsets offer poor memory performance.

RRLedford · Post by **RRLedford** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 3:05 pm

InactiveX, do you know of any motherboard that will be a decent workstation (AGP 4/8X capable) that has Dual P-III capability & DDR RAM support??
LAN & RAID onboard is a nice plus. USB 2.0 I won't even dream about getting.

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 2:39 pm

I'm afraid I don't, but have a look around the well-known hardware review sites.

PDR60 · Post by **PDR60** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 12:47 am

hyperspace wrote:I'm looking for a Tyan S2507T. I have a Asus P3C-D mainboard but I haven't got processors or memory for it, yet.

I have one(Tyan2507T) that I am running Linux on and it is realy great. talk about stable. It only gets rebooted when the power goes out. It been up for 128 days as of now. If you fill it up with ram and go scsi you will be very impressed.

About the BP6.... My first one lost the ide controllers and I felt like my dog had died. So I tried a SCSI card as a test and it has been my main web server since. They just don't go quietly. My other one is a samba file server that has never had any trouble. They are well designed boards and will be used till they die. I have bought boardsoff of ebay and built fine linux servers for smaller clients. If you put them in a well ventilated case and go SCSi with a tape back up, you can build quite a file server for small businesses (10-50 users). I even put a gigabit lan card in one to hook up to a client's one and only gig port on their switch. They love it. Its been up for over a year without a reboot. It has had security patches and all but hasn't required a reboot yet.

Thats how good the BP6 is!!!

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:51 pm

someone said SCSI! omfg omfg omfg

dude.. im a scsi freak

only time my bp6 ever gets rebooted is whe nthe pwoer supplies go PFFT :/

i just ordered a 400watt for $17.50 and gonna install it shortly..

my BP6 has been running for over a year non stop with several reboots..

it doesn't matter what the longest uptime is.. things happen to affect that..

the matter is.. how long consecutively it can run without failing

my celerons run at about 40C and they are OC'd ... my duron 1ghz runs around 41-42 C with a good HSF

the celerons have stock shitty intel coolers...

i like my bp6

the day it dies will be the day i buy another

i need to get into linux

what distro do you use PDR60? i tried redhat 7.3 and it pissed me off for lack of support for my video card at the time

Kuun

Post by **Derek** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:28 pm

kuun wrote:the day it dies will be the day i buy another

That's the spirit!

fazer · Post by **fazer** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:09 pm

when will the bp6 be replaced!? what kinda of a question is that!?! The bp6 is here to stay, and im sure that somehow somewhere someone will figure out how to put a p4 on this board!!!

*the room qoes quiet*

Well maybe not, but im keeping this board, soooo stable. *rolls over old Slot 1 board with chair by accident* oops

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 10:44 am

The only board to run Celerons in SMP without modifications.

The BP6 is a unique piece of history!

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:08 pm

and i own 3 of em!!!!

(selling one to friend who wants to get into dual systems)