Will pretty much all s370 1ghz P3's run in SMP?? May consider 933mhz also.

[formulav8]

I need to know if 1ghz or greater s370 P3's will do dual processing. 933mhz possibly also? And I need to know if the cpu's has to be matches for them to work ok. Thanks alot for any info I can get

PS: Can most or all s370 Celeron's do SMP??


Jason

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: formulav8
I need to know if 1ghz or greater s370 P3's will do dual processing. 933mhz possibly also? And I need to know if the cpu's has to be matches for them to work ok. Thanks alot for any info I can get

PS: Can most or all s370 Celeron's do SMP??


Jason

i haven?t looked into this, however due to the architecture of the Pentium subsystem i would say the chipset would be the defining factor, as if the chipset supported the certain spec?ed processor you mention, then you would be good to go.

 

[formulav8]

It is a Via chipset.

The computer already has 2x 600mhz (I think EB) 133/256 P3 cpu's.

So, hopefully it will support the higher cpu's. I guess I will need to check the mobo data to see.

I was really wanting to make sure the higher end P3's support SMP before I do alot of research for the mobo and such.



Jason

 

[formulav8]

someone has to know something about this

 

[3chordcharlie]

I looked into it once and it seemed to me as long as you had the same model (in your case, 1ghz coppermine) you were okay. I actually have 2 of these chips sitting in a closet somewhere, it always seemed like too much effort to find an SMP board for them.

 

[Leper Messiah]

Just have to be the same core revision, tuatlin, coppermine, etc. Steppings shouldn't matter.

 

[Zap]

Theoretically you'd want to get identical core/stepping, but I've heard that mismatched cores with even different speeds work (rumor, YMMV).

Socket 370... ahhh, those were the days...

Only socket 370 Celerons that can run SMP were the old PPGA Celerons, the ones with the black substrate running at up to 533MHz. Note that the 533A will not work, only up to the original 533. SMP got properly disabled in Coppermine/Tualatin Celerons.

AFAIK all Coppermine P3 chips can run SMP. Tualatin P3 can run SMP if you have the 512k cache versions, IIRC the 256k cache versions have SMP disabled.

 

[JC]

Here's a PDF that should answer your questions, check the "Mixed Steppings in DP Systems" section.


JC

 

[formulav8]

Thanks everyone for the help


Jason