Ken Wilson wrote:
>
> I stand to be corrected but I believe SMP is actually implemented on the
> motherboard and not within the CPU so the type of processor is not as
> critical as what processors the board will accept, within reason of
> course. i.e. Don't try this with a pair of 8086 chips. :)
Unfortunately, that's not true, else I'd have a pair of K6's powering
this system. Both the chip and the motherboard have to support SMP.
The Celerons, by design, do not support SMP -- it's a bit of electrical
hackery on the Slotket or Abit BP6 motherboards that allow you to do
it. There are special pins on the Pentium chips (including the
Celerons) that signal that they're a pair. In the case of the
Celeron's, those pins aren't connected correctly.
For what it's worth though, I've been looking at those BP6 boards and
thinking about putting a pair of C-300's on it. For around $300 (board
and chips only) you could have a nice SMP system. Not to mention that
the C-300's are overclockable to 450. Mmmm!
Speaking of "reasons why Linux beats Windows" -- Linux WILL take
advantage of both of those chips... Windows 95/98 won't...
> > Can the new PPGA Celerons do SMP??? I thought that they
> > needed some special adaptor or something like that.
> >
> > On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> > > Thing that a fellow in our LUG did which I thought was a
> > great buy was...
> > >
> > > get a duel socket 7 board thats out there now for about $125
> > >
> > > BUy two celeron 333 at about $90 each..
> > >
> > > $128meg at about $150 and you have a $500 KICK ASS MACHINE
> > >
> > > the new 2.2 kernel has dual processor support .. and his
> > (bargin) system is
> > > now flying.. running his own Web server.
> > >
> > > If I was a little more knowledgable in LINUX than I am now
> > .. I would go
> > > for it.. but as it is my AMDK62350 will do just fine.
> > >
> > > I am going to get another 64meg ram to bring me up to 128 though.
> > >
> > > James
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