Question on dual chips

[Garet Jax]

Hello all,

I am looking to buy a Dell PowerEdge 2300 server that has one Intel PIII 500 chip. The motherboard supports duals. Is it as simple as buying another Intel PIII - 500 slot 1 chip from ebay or do I need to concern myself with other things for compatibility? Thanks.

 

[Vette73]

The 2 chips for most Intel setups have to match (have same prodution numbers or soemthin glike) Its written on the chip.

You probable do better to get 2 new (Faster) matching chips then trying to find one that matchs that 500 one you have.

 

[Soulkeeper]

too bad it would cost too much to get the adapters and run tualatins in there

 

[xenos500]

What marlin1975 means to say is that certain intel CPUs need to be matched with an identical 2nd CPU.

The way to figure that out is to use the stepping code. Its a sequence of characters printed on the CPU that look like....SL2U7 or something of the like.

Not all CPUs need an identical pair, but a compatable pair. Intel has a chart on their site listing the multi processor compatability for different generations of CPUs.

First step is to get your current CPUs stepping code.
NExt go to the site and see what you can pair it up with
next, search around for a compatable pair to buy.

If you have trouble figuring it out, go ahead and PM me your current stepping code and I'll look it up for you.

Austin

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: xenos500
What marlin1975 means to say is that certain intel CPUs need to be matched with an identical 2nd CPU.

The way to figure that out is to use the stepping code. Its a sequence of characters printed on the CPU that look like....SL2U7 or something of the like.

Not all CPUs need an identical pair, but a compatable pair. Intel has a chart on their site listing the multi processor compatability for different generations of CPUs.

First step is to get your current CPUs stepping code.
NExt go to the site and see what you can pair it up with
next, search around for a compatable pair to buy.

If you have trouble figuring it out, go ahead and PM me your current stepping code and I'll look it up for you.

Austin

Austin,

Thanks a lot for the reply. Now it makes sense why most of the ebay auctions I looked at included some letters and numbers I didn't understand. I will see if I can find the page on Intel's site. If so, I will post it here.