chrisj wrote:
> I am trying to decide wheterh to upgrade to a K6-2 400 or change to dual
> celeron 333As but I am not sure where the advantages come in to play
> with an SMP based system.
>
> I have seen a lot of discussion about AMD support for dual procs with
> the K7 release and overclocking celerons, but I could not find much info
> comparing the performance of dual proc to single proc to single proc
> systems. (The one comparison I did find didn't show much advantage.)
>
> Are there distinct advantages of one over the other?
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Intel is marketing the Celeron for the "low-end" PC. They designed the chip
NOT to work in SMP configurations. When the chips senses that it is part of a
SMP config, it fails to boot. This is part of the design even though the
chips are basically regular PII's w/o the L2 cache. You can, however, "fool"
the chip into thinking that it is in a single config but it is a non trivial
task. I do very much recommend Mr. Cinege's suggestion of over-clocking
regular PII 300 or 333's. Check out
http://www.tomshardware.com/Celeronto100.html .
Regards,
Denoid.
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