What's the best mobo to use for a dually RC5 cracker?

[BGod]

I've got two Pentium III 500MHz Katami core CPU's that are both capible of doing 560MHz. I need something that will support 112FSB and have enough space between the CPU's for a decent heatsink/fan.

Is there a VIA chipset board that will do 112FSB?

Would the Tyan Tiger 100 be my best bet for overclocking?

 

[Russ]

Tyan Tiger, 1832DL. I have three of them. The only problem is that, since it's a BX chipset, the video card, PCI cards and hard drive have to be able to deal with off-speeds.

I've heard not so good things about the 1834 (VIA version).

Russ, NCNE

 

[MWalkden]

I'm with Russ, The VIA's are newer and have some bugs to work out I'm running a dual slot 1 Tyan Tiger 100, 366@550. Voltage adjustments required painting pins on the slot1's though, this board (otherwise) requires default voltages on the CPU's.

 

[BGod]

If I install Win2K Pro or Server with only one of the CPU's and plug the other one in later, will the OS figure it out and start using both?

 

[Russ]

Good question. I heard that NT needs some kind of configuration change in order to recognize the second CPU if added after the install. I don't know about Win2k, though.

Linux Mandrake automatically sees it.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Gatsby]

I believe (this is from what I've read) that you can change teh type of system it sees to the multiprocessor setting.


its in Device manager under computer.. Chnage this from the single processor variety to the multiprocessor variety. It should work then.

Gatsby

I am not liable if your computer blows up or cracks the rc5 key

 

[BGod]

/me blushes because he's Linux chalenged.

Never could get Mandrake installed without getting kernel panic. Must have scared the poor little thing.

 

[GreatWhiteNorth]

Gatsby is correct about Win2K. It should be trivial to make the change. Granted I havent done it myself but thats how MS says it is done. I have done upgrades to NT4. It is tricky depending what service pack you have installed. This will determine what HAL gets replaced. There is a utility called uptomp.exe that will do it for you (sometimes). I suggest building the machine with a multiprocessor kernal at the get go. It will run fine with one CPU and then recognise the second when you add it.

Hope this helps.

-GWN

 

[dave8311]

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