From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 23 15:19:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA26796 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 15:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA26790 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 15:19:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA04433 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 15:19:43 -0700 (PDT) To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: AMD's K5 processor in SMP applications? Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 15:19:42 -0700 Message-ID: <4431.832889982@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When you stock, say, an ASUS P54NP4 motherboard with two pentium processors It's my understanding that you have to buy one "master" and one slave CPU from Intel, you can't just buy two of the same P5 parts and drop them in. I've never actually populated such a board myself (they were already done by our boxshifter) so I don't know for _sure_, but that's my understanding. Now I'm wondering - if I wanted to use the K5 in the same application for reasons of cost, would I be screwed? I've looked through AMD's product line and I see no indication of whether or not the AMD chips are SMP capable. Anyone? Jordan