On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Sylvain Vignaud wrote:
> Jason Antonacci wrote:
> >
> > I was going through my Mandrake archives and saw your posting about a dual-celeron
>system. Tell me you're serious! I was told that all the SMP circutry was removed
>from the celerons and only P3 & P2 chips would run in parallel. Is anyone else
>running a system like this?
Yes it _was_ removed, it was done very recently (get em while you can the
older the better)
> This may be serious: there are 2 socket 7 motherboars for Celeron SMP,
> and moreover, a child-card that you plug in a PII Slot1 and which accept
> 2 celerons does exist.
socket 370, not socket 7. Visualy they've removed an additional corner
pin, internaly i've no clue the differences. The adapter for ppga to slot1
is reported to work very well on several MB's, i've not seen a bad report
on one yet.
> But celeron haven't been created for SMP, so using two of them won't
> give you that much performance; using 2 PII instead of 1 offer a bigger
> performance increase than using 2 celerons instead of 1 (Maybe 30% speed
> up?)
Overall useing slot1 is the best bet IMO, as they are designed from the
ground up (we hope), not just an after thought (as it were) for the ppga.
And i'll be damned if i can get this bp6 to run @100mhz with either of my
agp cards.
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