On 28 Feb 1999, David Mentr\'e wrote:
> BTW, to use Celeron systems in SMP, you must do some dirty (i.e. *real*
> hardware) things. Should be in the FAQ in a not so far future.
The Slot 1 -> Socket 370 bridge/adapter cards are available from some
vendors pre-wired to enable PPGA Celerons to run SMP. This approach has the
advantage of requiring no change whatsoever to the CPU itself. I got mine
from Census Computer (for $20us/ea, as I recall - I think they only ship
within the US though), viewable at
http://www.censuspc.com/6905/6905.htm
If you don't dig overclocking, hit "N" or whatever now and don't read any
further.
They're applying the single-wire SMP-enabling patch to the MS-6905 adapters,
which also happen to overclock nicely from 66MHz to 100MHz bus speed (my
dual-Celeron PPGA 300A is genuinely rock-solid at 450MHz and stock voltage
for two weeks now running kernel 2.2.1, rc5des (two processes of course),
bonnie on MD RAID 1, Xfree86, multiple browsers, etc) with the simple change
of a jumper on the adapter card.
I started out building this system as a cheap experiment, but it's so
blasted fast (how about 2.5M rc5 keys/sec?!) that I think I'm going to make
it my new workstation. :-)
-Andy
Global Auctions
http://www.globalauctions.com
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