Re: Processor types


Subject: Re: Processor types
From: civileme (civileme@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 19:38:28 AKDT


On Friday 21 June 2002 03:09 pm, Justin Dieters wrote:
> I've seen dual socket 370 motherboard's and 370->Slot1 adapter cards out
> there that can enable you to run dual celerons, although iirc, it takes
> some creative hacking (literally) to get it to work.
>
> Justin
>
> civileme wrote:
> >The Celeron has the same internals and execution units as the P-III
> >The Celeron has no ability to be placed on a mainboard with other Celerons
> > to make a multiprocessor computer (the Pentium DOES have that capacity)

Actually that was til INtel discovered people were making multiprocessing
with Celerons work, then instead of messing up the MP pins, they left them
out--no internal connection. That happened in 1999, and computernerd treated
those last few like gold --366s that dual-processed as 600s. I miss
computernerd.com

Civileme

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