On 5 Nov 1998, Dale E. Martin wrote:
> "Robert M. Hyatt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Intel says "yes" but only in dual-processor configurations, not
> > quads. Leaves a lot of us holding the "bag"...
>
> Have you actually seen _any_ motherboard that will support this chip? Just
> curious. I have a Tyan S1668, and their web site says nothing about it. I
> emailed their tech support and got no answer. Tom's Hardware would lead me
> to believe that there needs to be some bios support for this chip to
> work...
No I haven't... but I also haven't looked hard since my primary SMP
box here is a quad...
>
> I guess it's not surprising that this chip won't work in a quad
> configuration, since it's a PII core, right? Or are there quad PIIs now?
>
I don't think it's a "core" issue, because the xeon will go up to 8X
cpus... I think it is a cache issue, where the PII cache can't/won't
deal with more than one other cpu... But not having a xeon yet, I
haven't studied the differences between it and the PII, other than the
obvious faster L2...
