Date: Thu, 23 May 96 19:41:39 EDT From: gtc@aloft.att.com (gary.corcoran) To: hardware@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: AMD's K5 processor in SMP applications? Message-ID: <9605232341.AA08369@stargazer>
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>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. Yes, this is definitely true for the Intel P5 parts. Haven't checked prices lately, but about a year ago most places were charging $100-$200 *more* for the slave CPU (P5-90), just because they were more "rare". >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. Sorry, don't know about the K5, but you *would* have to have different parts to fulfill the master/slave roles on a motherboard designed for Intel 586's... Gary
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