Hello! >Anyway, the original Celeron had the multiprocesing pins messed up. The >moire recent ones had the pins disconnected internally (more properly, never >connected at all). Intel was very cautious about letting the Celeron compete >against its Pentium II/III/IV line and has always kept it crippled in some >regard. Ity is likely that you _can_ overclock some celerons, especially >older slower ones simply by kicking the bus to 100. A 300MHz Celeron becomes >a 450 when properly cooled and placed on a 100MHz bus, but above 366, the >processors had to be individually tested, which is what Computernerd did so >very well. > >Civileme In fact, what I would like to know (sorry, muy question was badly formulated), is whether Intel modified the newer chips so that it is IMPOSSIBLE to run even on a dual processor board. The 2 400 MHz I have run fine, the kernel 2.4.8 smp loads, and the performance tells me that it is really running fast. Same for BeOS, where I get the dual CPU load properly displayed. I am just worrying about the upgrade. Will I get 1 cpu at 800 MHz / 100 FSB or 2? Thanks, Pascal
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