

| Subject: | Re: Dual P90 CPUs vs. dual 166 or 200 overdrive chips? |
| From: | David Marshall |
| Date: | Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:34:45 -0800 |
No tape drive in the server, althought we do have a DDS-2 DAT in our server farm. I'm sure we can do something with that - ultimately RAID1 is a better solution. At 14:03 12/02/1999 -0500, Tom Carrington wrote: >John: > >I have the exact same HP XU as Gerry is on my desk at the office... > >Overdrive chips do not work, due to the dual-pentium config. This is >documented on HP's web site - I looked a while back. It is probably >possible to install faster CPU's, as long as they match the 60MHZ >external bus speed. Maybe a few 180MHZ pentiums? At the time I upgraded >mine, the 133MHZ was just getting affordable. I plugged them in, the >BIOS automatically recognized them, and the system ran faster. Simple. > >David also mentioned that there is only a single hard drive. We really >should have at least RAID1 (mirrored) drives. And how about a tape >drive? Dave, do we have one? > >TomC >tcarrington@relitech.com >http://www.relitech.com/tomc/tomvw.htm > > > >Blue Eyes wrote: >> >> Dave said, "Gerry has Dual P90 CPUs - when it is doing LISTSERV the utilization >> is [on both CPUs] 75% or so. When doing a web search [both CPUs] it is pegged >> to 100% and it can usually never get the job done - thus times out." >> >> For peanuts on Ebay, we could pick up a pair of what ever the fastest overdrive >> chip that HP motherboard will accept. HP's site will tell what it can accept, >> but I think 166 5-volt overdrives fit most everything back to the stone age. >> 166/90 = 184% if Gerry's CPU speed is a significant bottleneck. >> > > -- David Marshall - Vanagon List Admin - Quesnel, BC, Canada -- -- 78 VW Rabbit, 80 VW Caddy, 87 Audi 5KSQ, 85 VW Cabriolet -- -- 88 2.0L VW Syncro Double Cab, WANTED: VW / Bombardier Iltis -- -- David's Volkswagen Home Page http://www.volkswagen.org -- -- Fast Forward Autobahn Sport Tuning http://www.fastforward.ca -- -- david@volkswagen.org (pmail) or vanagon@volkswagen.org (list) --
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