Dual CPU PIII mobo

[Koharski]

so I'm getting one of these. Can I just throw in two of the same processor, or do I have to have matching pair?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

You'll want them as like as possible. Does that help? Matching pair = great. Same = sure, see what happens.

 

[Hooton]

Just have to make sure they are same bus and frequency speed. Intel would like u to believe it will not work otherwise.... but i know differently from experience.

 

[Koharski]

well, yeah. If I got to ebay I could get two of teh exact same processor for cheaper than a matching pair. Whats the difference?

 

[Knavish]

P3's were NOT sold in matching pairs to begin with. Any two working P3 processors will do the trick -- they need to be the same model. I doubt that you could run chips with two different multipliers. I'd just get two chips with the same multiplier and fsb speed.

-Knavish

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: Knavish
P3's were NOT sold in matching pairs to begin with. Any two working P3 processors will do the trick -- they need to be the same model. I doubt that you could run chips with two different multipliers. I'd just get two chips with the same multiplier and fsb speed.

-Knavish

Sometimes having differant steppings caused problems as well, so it's best to have matching steppings as well. There are also version with the same multi and FSB, but with differant cache size, and those don't cooperate so well either.

 

[Koharski]

hoo boy, this coudl get interesting.

 

[mechBgon]

If the steppings don't match, put the older stepping in Socket 0 as a best practice.

Bigger picture: don't dump tons of money into this. I replaced my dual P3 733 with an AthlonXP 1700+ back in the day, and it was noticeably faster to me as an end user.

 

[Koharski]

well, I'm getting the mobo for shipping. I'll probably spend ~30-40 on processors and anything else I would have bought anyway.

 

[Goosemaster]

I have a dual p3 board and put in one 800 and one 866....

The 800 was appearantly unlocked so when I kept the bus speed @ 133 and booted it up, I got 2x 866

 

[imported_killuminati]

a Intel Pentium D 805 (2.66ghz ) will do a ton better .

Peace & ciao !!!

 

[ND40oz]

I have two different stepping PIII 600s running together, no problems.

 

[Koharski]

cool. I think i'll get a pair of celery 1.1 and put those in together

 

[gnumantsc]

I think the only ones that did dual was the Tualitins which were the last P3 processor which were still being released with the introduction of the p4.

Koharski you are wasting your money getting celerons cuz even dual 1.1 is quite slow in performance.

 

[InlineFour]

my 800mhz p3 is still going strong.

 

[GoSharks]

I've run a 600EB with a 667 before, with no problems at all.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

What is this machine going to be used for? (My dual p3 gets here Thursday).

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Koharski
cool. I think i'll get a pair of celery 1.1 and put those in together

Celerons aren't dual-capable, grab some 900MHz - 1GHz P3's instead.