From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 10 12:46:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [12.9.219.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E118014A14 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:46:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from HARLIE.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [12.9.219.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA26377; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:46:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:46:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: "A.G. Russell IV" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPU upgrade In-Reply-To: <199909101931.OAA17267@bifrost.agrknives.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message