Compatibility Question: ECS D6VAA Dual P3 Motherboard and 1.0a Tualatin Celerons..Do they work?

[SammyBoy]

Hey guys. Im looking into a ECS D6VAA Dual P3 Motherboard, FCPGA motherboard. I know that it has the VIA Apollo Pro 133A.

I was wondering a few things. I know that the tualatin (sp?) celerons are essentially P3s with 100mhz FSB. Does that mean that you can run them in dualie configuration, or does intel somehow lock them from doing smp?

thanks guys, any input is great, maybe to suggest a different mobo, or different CPUs (that work if cellys dont). thanks a ton guys

-Sam

 

[SammyBoy]

damn 🙁

VIA VT82C694X & VT82C686B Chipset
Dual PGA-370 Sockets for dual Pentium® III FC-PGA (Coppermine), Celeron? FC-PGA/PPGA or Cyrix® III processors
Three 168-pin DIMMs with SDRAM support, up to 1.5GB
5 PCI slots, 1 4X AGP slot, 1 CNR slot (Modem Only)
HPT370 PCI IDE Array Controller with UDMA 100 support on board (optional)
Avance ALC100P Audio Codec on board
Special Features:
Support Dual Pentium® III processors
Suspend to RAM (STR)
Magic Setting
LAN, Modem Wake Up
Hardware Monitoring
Support PC133 SDRAM
Support UltraDMA 100
Support additional four IDE devices (optional)

may have just answered my own question.

 

[odog]

dual celerons don't work.... the last celeron with SMP was the PPGA mendocino celeron 533mhz. all copperine and tualatin celerons are SMP disabled.

 

[Rand]

All Tualatin and Coppermine based Celeron's are SMP disabled, only the Covington and Mendocino cores were capable of running in SMP.
In any case, the VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset does not support the Tualatin core, you'd need VIA's Apollo Pro 133T for that and I don't believe there are any dually 133T mainboards available.