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Subject: Re: What is the difference between Athlon MP and XP processors? (NT)

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 05:44:07 02/01/02

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On February 01, 2002 at 07:47:14, Victor Zakharov wrote:

>On February 01, 2002 at 07:41:41, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On February 01, 2002 at 06:45:20, Dan Andersson wrote:
>>
>>>There has been a note from AMD. They are currently OK'ing XP in SMP. That's
>>>subject to change of course.
>>>
>>>MvH Dan Andersson
>>
>>So if i buy 2 XP2000 1.6Ghz processors now i can use them SMP?
>>In short they are no longer SMP unlocked?
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Vincent
>
>As I know it never was a problem before to use Athlon and even Duron in SMP
>configuration, but AMD promises to disable this in future releases.

I've heard that too being based on the same core and all, but I also heard they
wouldn't guarantee SMP functionality in the XP's, they haven't been fully testet
(which is also why they are cheaper I guess).

-S.



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