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Which athlon MP? Which motherboard? Future?

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robbyT

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Hello everyone,
I?ve followed these forums for a while but this is my first time posting.
I currently have an epox 8kha+ and an amd 1800+. I would like to upgrade to an athlon MP setup but am unsure on what to get. (Yes the 2 main programs I?m using, Reason 2 and Cubase SX are multithreaded and have SMP optimizations)

With the current selection of mpx motherboards, which one do you guys recommend? I was looking into the MPX tiger and 2 2000+ chips?

I?m also wondering if there is some new amd multi-cpu chipset or cpu on the horizon that I should wait for??
 
I don't know about the chipset but I have heard a new mp is coming out soon. Makes sense I guess since the xps are ramping up in speed finally.
 
I have the asus a7m266d with 2 1800xp oc to 1950xp. seems stable for everything i do (games, video encoding, webserver, active directory/DC, and your everyday stuff)
 
Heres the long and short of it from my POV. It's unlikely that AMD will release a 333MHz bus MPX chipset, since they had so many problems with the 266MHz MPX. Good, so you'll not have to worry about faster bus chips being available for SMP (Until Clawhammer comes out).

You can overclock these boards (Well, most anyway) but it makes your 66MHz slots unusuable, because they are twice as much out of sync as a normal PCI device. So you want to stick to multiplier-based adjustments. MSI's board is the only one that offers that OCing ability. They also offer a board with onboard ethernet. Check 2cpu.com's forums for the exact model number.

You can also design a circuit to overclock all MP chips fairly easily, only requires soddering on 10 points on the board, all on the CPU sockets.

My recomendation: Get a cheap pair of XPs or MPs whatever you feel comfortable with, and the first board through NewEgg's refurbs that looks good. Every now and then they have an Asus or MSI, these are good choices for the $125 or so they ask for them.

The refurb model does not usually come with the USB 2.0 PCI card, but you can find one of those for $20, so this is still a steal.
 
Thanks everyone!
2cpu.com is very helpful, i've never seen that before.

As for over clocking smp chips, i was under the impression that MPX smp is already a fragile architecture and it seems like pushing that further would be risky.

Has anyone ready anything about modifying the xp chips so they run in place of the MP chips? Is there really any difference physically between these two?
 
Is there really any difference physically between these two?
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Yes, XP chips manufactured after March have an L5 bridge cut that disables SMP operation.
Take another look at the motherboard forum on 2cpu.com - there are links to instructions on how to check your chip and reconnect the bridge if necessary.
 
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