From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Nov 4 16: 8:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DCC815534 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 16:08:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA26180 for freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 01:06:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 01:06:26 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199911050006.BAA26180@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Celeron + FreeBSD? Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Scott Myron wrote in list.freebsd-smp: > Hello. I want to get a Dual celeron going with freebsd as the OS. My > question is, do the chips have to have the same stepping? I read > somewhere that if the chips do NOT have the same stepping, it screws up, > > and causes blue screens in NT, and i was wondering if anything similar > happens in FreeBSD. I figure it'll be difficult to get 2 celerons with > the same stepping. I am just planning on getting 2 retial ppga celeron > 433's. I read somewhere else that "it was just a myth and the processors > do NOT have to have the same stepping." so i'm just searching for the > truth. Thanks. I simply ordered two Celeroni (466 MHz) from a reseller (hoping that they would be of same age and stepping), and indeed it turned out that they were the same stepping, and they're working fine since (in a Gigabute GA-6BXD mainboard). So I'd suggest that you simply order two of them, and there will be a good chance that they will be of the same stepping. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message