I am running celeron 366's with big GlobalWin coolers. They run cool at 550mhz (100mhz fsb) and SMP enabled using Mandrake 8.0. Your 400mhz celerons do not overclock, I tried. Intel made the celeron to compete with the cheaper AMD K6 chips. The original release (without level 2 cache) was junk. When they came out with the ppga chip w/level 2 and SMP it was outselling the Pentium II. To save their high end PII and PIII chips, Intel made it difficult to overclock the 400 - 550 mhz celerons. When AMD introduced the K7 Intel came out with the "flip chip" (fcpga) celeron. Initially they eliminated SMP, but some of the later models have SMP pins connected in a new configuration. Ppga and fcpga celerons are not interchangeable. Powerleap makes a fcpga to ppga adapter that sells for about 25 USD. The Abit vp6 motherboard replaced the bp6 for the SMP flip chips at about 175 USD. Search Google for more info (smp, bp6, vp6, powerleap, etc.). Lee At 02:59 PM 8/31/2001 +0900, Pascal Goguey wrote: > Hello, > > I am running Mandrake on a Abit motherboard (Abit BP6) >with dual celeron. It looks like the smp kernel works fine. >The celerons I use are quite old (400 MHz) and their FSB clock >rate is 66 MHz. I was thinking I would upgrade to more recent >CPUs (about 800 MHz each, 100 MHz FSB). But I was told that >the 100 MHz celeron may not run an SMP machine. In fact, >it may work on a single processor only., so there is (according >to that person) no point in "upgrading". > Does anyone have data about this issue? > Does anybody use a BP6 with 100 MHz celerons? > > Thanks, > > Pascal > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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