Is it possible to have dual processor set up with plain old CPU?

[Yuniverse]

I have pair of Thorton AXDC 2200DUV CPU's

I was wondering if it's possible to use them in one setup... like a dual processor setup.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[phaxmohdem]

WTF is a Thorton AXDC 2200DUV CPU and what does it do?

 

[Yuniverse]

Oh... i guess it's too outdated? (enough to forget)

It's a AMD Athlon XP CPU

As you may know, it has several different cores such as Thoroughbred, thunderbird, thorton, etc.

 

[Captante]

Depends on the CPU ... Intel for example disabled dual-CPU operation in most Celerons after socket 370 & AMD made many Athlon XP's that would sort of work in a dual-CPU setup, but not very well.

 

[Maximilian]

A thorton is basically a castrated barton core, it has half the cache that barton does. I know that Athlon XP's with the palomino and throughbred cores can be unlocked pretty easily but ive heard that a barton or thorton is more difficult. By unlocked i mean unlocked so you can use it in a dual CPU setup, you see with a simple pencil mod on one of the pamolinos the smp capabilities could be unlocked, same with the multiplier and possibly power saving enhancements.

Google modding a barton and unlocking a barton. Try thorton as well, it may be a different procedure but i think itll be the same since they are the same core basically.

BTW are you sure its "Thorton"?? and not "Throughbred"?? I dont think they made 2200+ thortons....

 

[Yuniverse]

thanks for the info

I will try looking it up

Yes, it is a Thorton core...unfortunately(considering your info)

 

[Yuniverse]

Nevermind...

I've just searched for dual CPU motherboards on ebay and it come around $140+

So, it wouldn't be worth it.

I'll just sell these off on ebay or something

thanks for all your help

 

[Ionizer86]

Ahh, everyone with K8's have long forgotten about the glory days of sub $80 K7 processors! Some Bartons may have had cache defects. Why toss the whole chip when you could simply disable 256k of it and still sell it? The Thorton physically had the same amount of cache as a Barton but only 256k of it was enabled, just like with the 0.13u Thoroughbred. I'm vouching that it's an unofficial name, but it makes sense.

 

[aka1nas]

A Thorton may be superlocked as it is Barton-based.

Unless you have both CPUs and a 760MPX board already lying around, it isn't really worth doing at this point. The platform is very bandwith starved and you would be served better by getting a low-end dual core X2 and a regular socket 939 board.