Athlon Multi-Processor Capability

[Meetingu]

Will the new 1.33Ghz Athlon chip function in a MP environment or do I need to wait until the next release of the chip to get this?


http://www.meetingu.com

 

[Vegito]

I believe all cpu are dual capable, just need the MOBO.. except there won't be slot A dual mobo... since the market for those are long gone..

 

[pm]

Based on what I've read in the past I would agree with you, Forcesho, but this article from Ace's (which is dated 3/25) says no. To quote:

<< As you can see in AMD's roadmap, AMD will introduce a SMP capable Palomino in second quarter for the workstation and server market. This Palomino has, of course, the same core as the desktop Palomino, which will be introduced in the third quarter. The only difference between Palomino desktop and Palomino Server seems to be that the server version has some typical &quot;server&quot; features (extra monitoring on die?). Both versions have 384 KB of cache (L1 + L2).

There is good and bad news for those who dream of a powerful dual CPU workstation. The bad news is that AMD does not support dual Thunderbird systems. Running two Thunderbirds on a motherboard based on the AMD-760MP might work, but AMD advises against it. >>


I guess we'll have to see when the boards are available in significant amounts.

 

[Vegito]

That would suck for most people whom already own t-bids... but then again, all these cpu price drop like a knife so I would imagine by the time 2ghz hits, these cpu would be cheap enuff for you to buy even 4 (quad) hehehe

 

[jpprod]

There have already been early benchmarks of dual-Tbirds running on the Tyan AMD-760MP mobo, so I'm pretty confident that Tbirds and even Durons will work just fine on Dual Socket-A mobos, at least ones based around the AMD-760MP chipset.

 

[NucleusWDS]

Intel will be have to change their pants when dual AMD motherboards hit the streets
With Athlon performance kicking P4s all over the place ... imagine what a dual Athlon will do ?

Lets hope it won't be long ......

 

[NFS4]

<< Running two Thunderbirds on a motherboard based on the AMD-760MP might work, but AMD advises against it. >>


Intel &quot;advised&quot; against using dual Celerons on the BP6. It sounds like a ploy to get people to step over to dual Palominos to me

 

[Hanpan]

<< Running two Thunderbirds on a motherboard based on the AMD-760MP might work, but AMD advises against it. >>

rumor has it this is due more to thermal management problems than actual techincal barriers. Remeber that many dual systems will probably go into Rachmount cases in which thermal management is critical. I beleive this is why amd advises against it. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

 

[PCResources]

I know that dual T-birs are no problemo... I designed a motherboard from the Micron Samurai chipset that is SMP capable, DDR-266 capable, 64bit 66Mhz PCI slots and it has been running for about three weeks now...

Hanpan is correct though, i would advise against it in a rack mounted solution without some kind of special cooling management...

Patrick Palm

PC Resources

 

[NucleusWDS]

I don't think AMD advises NOT to dual Athlons ... but rather, they don't want to encourage it because of legal issues I guess.

Anyway, they know that there's MAD and CRAZY techies out there willing to take that extra step to show off what they can do ...

That includes me

 

[NFS4]

<< I designed a motherboard from the Micron Samurai chipset that is SMP capable, DDR-266 capable, 64bit 66Mhz PCI >>


All by yourself?? Aren't there normally a group of people that work on those kinds of projects?

 

[PCResources]

<< All by yourself?? Aren't there normally a group of people that work on those kinds of projects? >>



You are right, i was not alone, i tend to write i when it comes to my company because i founded it, but of course, there are many others in my staff that deserves credit for pulling this off...

Patrick Palm

PC Resources

 

[xtreme2k]

Just a thought.

AMD not recommending Duallie Tbirds because each of the Tbirds already using about 70watt+ of power at 1.333GHz+, if you run them in dual, it means your motherboard need to support 140w+ power JUST FOR THE CPU. Which is pretty demanding.

 

[NFS4]

<< You are right, i was not alone, i tend to write i when it comes to my company because i founded it, but of course, there are many others in my staff that deserves credit for pulling this off... >>


Just checking...you don't want to leave out the &quot;little people&quot;

 

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[Dually]

Yes all athlons are and allways have been smp enabled, even the classics. AMD jsut didn't want to have them out cause they felt it would take away from their strategy to take market share in the desktop area and oem area. I saw an smp classic ahtlon 550mhz over a year ago. That is all I can say due to my nondisclosure agreement.

 

[Rand]

I'm pretty confident that current T-Birds will operate in SMP if there was a board for them. According to Ace's AMD claims not to support dual T-birds but I'm thinking that would be similar to when Intel didnt officially support dual Celeron's back with the BP6.