Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 21:20:01 05/08/02
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On May 08, 2002 at 15:30:16, Slater Wold wrote: if this naive person doesn't even know the diff between the memory, we should ask him to quote what the processor said when he installed it. I bet it starts with AMP1800 :) >On May 08, 2002 at 14:41:14, Victor Zakharov wrote: > >>>I am now ready to buy dual mashine but can't find big difference between these >>>to chips. Has anyone experience w/ both and could tell the difference I like >>>chess but need it to be mostly a db server using mysql or oracle must be >>>reliable. >> >>My Tyan Tiger MP S462 system works absolutely stable with double Athlon XP 1800+ >>for a few months. But I am afraid that new MPX motherboards demands Athlon MP >>processors. It depends of BIOS. I can't guarantee that this will work with any >>motherboard. But the problem is not in processors. The problem is that BIOS can >>simply disable using XP processors. > >Not true. I had a Tyan S2460 and used both 2 Thunderbird (1.4Ghz) CPUs, and 2 >XP (1.53Ghz) CPUs. Never had a problem. When I upgraded to the XP2100s, they >would NOT work in the Asus mobo I had bought (or the Tyan). I had to modify the >CPUs, and now they work fine. The BIOS even reports them as AMD MP CPUs. > >>I had the problems with my motherboard after buying it. But when I changed >>memory to registered DDR all became excellent. > >You _HAVE_ to use registered memory with ALL dual AMD systems. It's not an >option. They don't have to be ECC, but they DO have to be registered. > >>Victor
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