Good Dual Tualatin Board?

[sirfergy]

I am looking for a good budget board that can take dual tulatin celerons. Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[mechBgon]

The Tualatin Celerons and Coppermine Celerons aren't dual-able. If you want to try dual P3 Coppermines, here's a board that might interest you provided you don't want to use more than 512Mb of RAM: Dual-Socket370 i815-based board, $33 I make no representations about it being good quality or anything, but for $33 it could be worth goofing around with.

 

[Acts837]

Tyan Tiger 230T (S2507T) Via Pro133T Dual PIII (Tualatin) ATX Motherboard for $117.99 at GoogleGear

I have the Acorp board. One reason I never sunk the $$$ into the PIIIs was the limited 512MB of memory.

 

[sirfergy]

Yeah, but the $40 pricetag is very tempting. Do you think a Dual 800 would be better than a single 200xp for a developer?

 

[mechBgon]

I had a dual P3 733, and replaced it with an XP1700+ (1.46GHz, same total MHz here). The AthlonXP was much more responsive in daily use (I'm trying not to use the terminology "mopped the floor with the dualie" here ).

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: sirfergy
Yeah, but the $40 pricetag is very tempting. Do you think a Dual 800 would be better than a single 200xp for a developer?

Dual chip systems are for people that run several programs at once or use it as a server that gets several hits at the same time.

For someone running one program(developer) I would go Athlon XP with a nForce2 chipsets and Dual channel Ram

 

[Acts837]

I had a dual P3 733, and replaced it with an XP1700+ (1.46GHz, same total MHz here). The AthlonXP was much more responsive in daily use (I'm trying not to use the terminology "mopped the floor with the dualie" here ).

Thank you! I am in the process of switching one of my rigs from the Acorp setup to an XP1700+ with possibly some nForce2 board. Haven't decided which one yet though.

 

[sirfergy]

Well, my dev machine runs SQL Server, Resin and Eclipse. Eclipse sadly doesnt even run well on a signle 900MHz Athlon. Thanks for your input. Do you know if a normal Socket A Athlon will work in a dual processor board?

 

[mechBgon]

They can be made to do so by bridging the L5 bridge, yep.

 

[sirfergy]

Really? A normal AMD 900MHz can be made into dual? SWEET!

 

[mechBgon]

Actually, if memory serves, you don't need to do a darn thing to the Thunderbirds to dual them. Put 'em in and go. Remember that most AMD dualie boards do either require or desire Registered ECC DDR memory, a potential gotcha.