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Date:      Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:46:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
To:        "A.G. Russell IV" <arussell@bifrost.agrknives.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CPU upgrade
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909101243370.22542-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
In-Reply-To: <199909101931.OAA17267@bifrost.agrknives.com>

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On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, A.G. Russell IV wrote:

> The AMD and PPRO are not pin compatible...
> Plus the k6 line does not have smp support, you will have to go to an Athlon(sp?) to get smp support, and will have to 
> have a new MB in any case...

Someone has a converter that will let you plug PPGA Celerons into Socket8,
which is what the PPRO uses.  I lost my reference to this, check the
various hardware sites, that's where I found a link to the part.

I've heard rumor that Intel plans on disabling SMP on PPGA Celerons, but I
haven't heard that it has actually happened.



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