Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:45:22 -0600 (MDT) From: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd@atipa.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@sunyit.edu> Cc: Kevin Van Maren <vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP? (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970728223823.26537B-100000@dot.ishiboo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970728235727.16958A-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu>
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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Something must have gotten lost in the translation :) > > What i would like to do is have both CPUs run at the same MHZ, but have > the P200MMX clocked down to the same speed as the P150, i don't see a > problem with slowing down the CPU, as usually the only difference between > a P166MMX and a P200MMX is that somewhere in the 166's creation process > something wasn't done perfect so that at 200Mhz it flakes out. Not too certain about that... I know that some boards exist (e.g. Gigabyte GA-586DX-512 older revisions) that support the 166MMX but _DO_NOT_ support the 200MMX, even though CPU bus will run at 200MHz. The newer versions of the above board have CPU voltage auto-detect, but I would not be confident in its ability to run 2 different voltages. It would be a kludge that MAY work, but I would not recommend it. > If you are saying that the P150 and P200MMX run at different voltage... > then that sucks, but hey what can i do? :) Intel just dropped their prices this morning... maybe you could "liquidate" the older processor. The 166MMX's are down under $200 each. The price for (2) 166's will still be less than the original budget for the single 200MMX! Kevin
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