Tyan 2507 Dual celeron?

[JohanHammy]

I was looking at setting up a Dual Celeron 566 system on a Tyan 2507 board. I read one place that said I couldn't run dual celerons on that. Another place said I could. Could anyone clear this up for me?

 

[Vette73]

The onlt Cel's you can run Dual are the ppga, the newwer ones will not. I don't think the 566 will do dual, but I may be wrong but I thin the 466 was the last ppga Cels?

Now you can run dual matching P3's, Durons 1ghz and higher, and Athlon MP/XP's.

 

[Doh!]

This is the last place to find the right answer. The answer is "No". The last celeron that is smp-capable is 533 (PPGA, not FC-PGA. There're two versions). Anyone who's interested in running a dual celeron setup (I don't know why since dual duron/athlon is much better and just as cheap now) should check out www.bp6.com. I still have a bp6 (dual celeron board) that I've been trying to squeeze the last ounce of performance by upgrading to a faster processor, only to find that 533mhz celeron is the last celeron that will do smp (with serious modding, you can run a dual PIII, not all of them but a certain steping of PIII). If you want a cheap dual setup, go with duron/athlon.

 

[Kazuo]

For real. You can go:
dual Celeron mobo for as cheap as $30
each Celeron 500ish costs about $30
Or you could've just gotten a Duron 800 and probably gotten the same performance for about $60 if you're smart (with motherboard).

 

[JohanHammy]

I just found out that a Duron 1300 is only $10 more than the Celeron 566. I also found the Asus A7M266-D for like $50 more than some no name deal. I have changed my plan of action.