I'm 99% sure this wouldn't work, but...Dual Durons?

[quickford]

If Athlon XPs can be made to work in dual CPU motherboards, why not Durons? I'm guessing there's probably something different about the architecture that would make it impossible, but I think it'd be funny if you could do it. Feel free to slap me around a bit with a large trout if you want. :laugh:

 

[RockGuitarDude]

There's no point.

 

[Alkaline5]

I've never been able to try it, but supposedly all pre-Palomino Socket A CPUs are capable of Dual processing w/o modification. I'll probably never be able to find the article, but some site benched dual Durons when the first dual Socket A board came out. Durons would be slow, but dual 1.4Ghz TBirds doesn't sound too bad.

 

[CraigRT]

dual Durons would be kinda cool just cause you can buy them so ridiculously cheap.. they aren't too bad @ cracking either really. but I honestly don't think they work.
I regular at 2cpu.com and I've never heard of it really...

 

[Alkaline5]

Fount it! Firinsquad compared the TBird, Duron and the Palomino-based MP all running at 1GHz. Also, they tested a "Duron MP" that I don't remember.

 

[CraigRT]

Duron MP... never even heard of it... cool!

 

[InlineFive]

I think that Durons are the easiest and most reliable to mod into MP chips but I'm not 100% sure on that. Try a Google search.

 

[Blain]

People ran dual Celerons back in the day. Different strokes...

 

[Vette73]

When I had my 760MPX setup, I did not have the money for XP's/MP's so I went with 2 1Ghz Durons. Very fast and cheap.

But with XP's being so cheap now, theres not much point.

 

[elkinm]

Would Duron MP be Palomino or better based durons like the Athlon MP used to be? If so then it might be decent, otherwize, Athlons are clearly a better value.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: elkinm
Would Duron MP be Palomino or better based durons like the Athlon MP used to be? If so then it might be decent, otherwize, Athlons are clearly a better value.

The 1.4GHz and higher Durons are Thoroughbred based.

 

[imported_whatever]

if you're thinking about it, DONT go dual thunderbirds. the 1.4 model puts out about 74W of heat - now think what that will do to the temps of your system with 2 of those running.overclocked it gets even worse - i am running my old 1.33 at 1.46 and it is putting out over 100W of heat. in a well-ventilated system with a decent heatsink, it hits 51c at load. so go palomino or above.

 

[glugglug]

Chances are it will work. Just not an officially supported configuration.

 

[zephyrprime]

The mobile XP is so cheap that there's no point.