Date:         Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:34:45 -0800
Reply-To:     David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
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From:         David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Dual P90 CPUs vs. dual 166 or 200 overdrive chips?
Comments: To: Tom Carrington <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>
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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.
>>
>
>

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