Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 23:31:55 08/26/02
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On August 27, 2002 at 01:18:10, Slater Wold wrote: >On August 27, 2002 at 00:14:14, Aaron Gordon wrote: > >>On August 26, 2002 at 15:35:02, Slater Wold wrote: >> >>>On August 26, 2002 at 15:05:06, Anson T J wrote: >>> >>>>Are all these P4s SMP capable? How about the 2600+ AMD XP? I recall some XPs >>>>being dual capable if a cut link on the cpu was completed or something like >>>>that. Is that still the case with all XPs including the 2600+? >>> >>>No. The fastest P4 SMP CPU is 2.4Ghz. >>> >>>It has yet to be seen if the XP2600+ will do SMP. The biggest problem will be >>>getting a motherboard to do the multi of that CPU. (Which is 16x.) >> >>Motherboard doesn't matter when it comes to the multiplier, if the CPU is locked >>anyway. If you unlock it then you'll need the board to support whichever >>multiplier you're wanting to go up/down to. > >Well, I know for a fact the max multiplier on the Tyan S2460 is 15x. So you can >scratch running a 2600 in it. > >I contacted Asus as well, but their support sucks, so I will be lucky to get a >response at all. > >But that's all I was saying. Some of the more "popular" boards, might not >support a 16x multiplier. It will run it, the board doesn't have to be set to anything. It won't matter. If the CPU is locked at 16x then it WILL run 16x. For example, many, many people used Celeron-2's in the older BH6 boards (via iWill slocket2's, Asus slocket-3's, etc).. anyway. The BH6 supposedly supports this, "Supports PentiumIII/Celeron 450~700 MHz processor cartridge." (from Abit's webpage). Now, as I was saying. I think the multiplier only goes up to 8x or so, if that. Celeron 766's have an 11.5x multiplier. They run no problem in BH6's. Now, if you unlock your cpu then and only then will you be limitied by the multiplier support on the motherboard. Even then you can sometimes get around it.. like 5.0x multiplier being treated as 14x on some tbirds (similar to K6's using 1.5 as 3.5x, higher end k6-2/3's using 2x as 6x, etc).
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