I wasn't referring to 386s and 486s, i guess i was basically 
asking if they made motherboards with two mulitplier juimpers, 
one per processor. That way if you had, say two pIIIs, one at 450 
and one at 500 you'd have a 100Mhz bus with one mulitplier at 
4.5x and the other at 5x. I wasn't sure if the dual processor 
motherboards had only one multiplier or two.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From:   Gustav Schaffter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Tuesday, January 11, 2000 4:03 PM
To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:        Re: OT: Dual CPUs

Jeff,

The CPU speed will traditionally (i.e. 386 & 486) be controlled 
by the
crystal on the motherboard. The CPU will follow. If you have a
motherboard that supports multiple processors of these types, it 
will
run the processors at the same speed whatever you do. OTOH, 386 
and 486
are physically different. You probably won't find a motherboard 
that
will do this. Don't even know if there were any motherboards that 
could
keep multiple 386s, being the same processors. I'm not even sure 
about
the 486s.

'Modern' processors are somewhat blocked. They have a multiplier 
built
in so that they will always execute at a multiple of the bus 
speed.
Overclocking of these processors is done by changing the bus 
speed. I
guess that in theory you could run a PIII550 and a PIII500 in the 
same
PC, but I haven't tried it. I wouldn't be surprised if it failed,
though.

Best regards
Gustav

Jeff Graves wrote:
>
> i was just reading this thread and started wondering, if you 
have
> a machine with dual CPUs, do they need to be the same clock 
speed
> or can you have say, a 366 and a 433?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Steve Borho [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent:   Tuesday, January 11, 2000 11:27 AM
> To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:        Re: Anyone know of a console Dual-CPU monitor 
(like Top
> for Dual CPU's)?
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 09:26:32AM -0600, Steven Hildreth 
wrote:
> > Hi, wanting to find a utility to show me the activity for a
> dual cpu
> > server.
> >
> > If "top" will do this, how?
> >
> > Basically want "top" but with both CPU's displayed from the
> console.
>
> You can use top and watch the system load grow to 200%
>
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