[ale] new linux box

[David Corbin]

jeff hubbs wrote:

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>> Even still, I would recommend that you purchase a
>> dual-CPU board with a single CPU and wait out the CPU prices until you
>> purchase the second CPU. The trick here is being patient and buying a
>> second (now considered slow) CPU when everyone else is buying a new,
>> faster computer.
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> This is one thing in Michael's response that I disagree with.  From 
> the first time that I built, bought, inherited, or lucked upon 
> dual-CPU Intel boxes, I have always come to regret not populating that 
> second socket or slot.
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> For one thing, the passage of time makes it progressively less easy to 
> locate, obtain, and install a second CPU that matches the first 
> exactly.  They not only need to have the same clock speed, but they 
> need to have the same bugs (the OS has to incorporate the same 
> workaround for both or not at all), and any other differences that the 
> time difference may incur...well, you're going out on a limb, risking 
> getting problems that no one else will likely be able to reproduce, 
> much less diagnose, much less correct.  Meanwhile, while you're 
> sitting there with one CPU in your two-CPU box, you're not getting any 
> returned value for the extra money you spent on the dual motherboard, 
> and, because of the problem I mentioned above, you're risking not 
> being able to get any returned value for the extra money at all.
>
I'm in support of Mr. Hubbs here.  My NT desktop system still sits there 
with an open slot, waiting for a Pentium 266 Mhz that will never be 
seen. It sure seemed like a good idea the time.....but it wasn't

>
> - Jeff
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