All you folks into SMP

[linuxguy at ici.net (linuxguy at ici.net)]

> 	Well when I buit my Dual PII 350 awhile ago I remeber others were
> to.  Well, even though the board I got can support PIII 850's, I just
> ordered two PII Xeon 450's with 2mb of Cache.  The procs were running $119
> a piece.  I just couldn't pass up the upgrade for my home system.  I
> figure next time I upgrade it will be to a 64 bit arch.  I got them from
> www.star-components.com - well anyway figured I would pass on how cheap
> there selling these things for.
> 

I I understood you correctly, you're planning to replace your PII with the
XEON?  I don't think that'll work. My understanding was that the Xeon
processors used a different slot type and required a motherboard with
450GX or 450NX chipsets.

I dug around http://tomshardware.com but could not find a specific article
backing up my theory.  But I did find this.

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/98q3/980702/index.html

-christoph


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