Re: Non-identical CPUs in dual-processor system

2005-05-20 Thread Tony Shadwick
My general thoughts on the matter is that if the bios is happy and letting you boot up multi-cpu, then you should be fine. The OS is going to throw instructions at the two cpu's, and those instructions will be run. The only real difference between any chips that are i386-compatible that you

Non-identical CPUs in dual-processor system

2005-05-19 Thread Brian O'Shea
Hello all, I have a dual-processor system that I have been using with only a single CPU for some time. Recently I got ahold of another CPU from an old retired system. I thought that both processors were identical (they came from what appears to be the same model PC, an HP Kayak XU). However,