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What chipsets are Xeons compatible with?

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Gunnar

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Actually I am a BX board owner looking to extend the life of the machine. Just wondering, would it be possible to throw a Xeon on the MB? They did make a Xeon variant of the Pentium III, and it is the P6 core, presumably running on the same bus.

Furthermore, do (did) all Xeons come in slot packages? Or were they released in FCPGA form as well? What about the new Xeons? Are they totally incompatible with SiS chipsets, the 845E/G, and Via offerings?

Thanks
 
P3 xeons did not work in normal MB. So you are out of luck there.

The new Xeons (p4 based) use a socket that has more pins then the socket 478 of the current P4 cpu's. They only run on a few chipsets that offer support. 860, E7500, and I believe one from server works has well.
 
pentium3 xeons are slot2 based, and are *huge* physically.

Look on ebay for some pics of pentium 2 / 3 Xeons and you'll know what im talking about.
 
1. P3 Xeon's run at the same bus speed as standard P3's but their not compatible with the 440BX chipset.
2. Yep, all P3 Xeon's came in slot packages even the ones that were based on the Coppermine P3 and used a 133mhz bus speed.
3. The new P4 based Xeons are only compatible with the Intel i860 and E7500, ServerWorks Grand Champion and Via's new P4X400 chipsets.
 
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