Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:36:32 +0200 From: Gregor Bittel <Gregor.Bittel@GMX.de> To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PIII SMP Message-ID: <200307301536.32866.Gregor.Bittel@GMX.de> In-Reply-To: <3F2657A2.19FC7E20@mindspring.com> References: <27727.1059465900@www22.gmx.net> <3F265050.8000705@liwing.de> <3F2657A2.19FC7E20@mindspring.com>
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Hi, On 29.07.2003 10:05, freebsd_deamon@gmx.net wrote: > buying two PIII for a dual system ... what do i have to pay > attention to (besides the requirements of the M/B)? > aka ... are all PIII SMP capable? No, not all PIII-processors are SMP-capable, some steppings are not working, like the first generation of the 1GHz-processors, they do not work with SMP (AFAIK). Please grab the specifications for the PIII-processor at Intel.com, it is always the best ressource for questions like this. Terry Lambert wrote: > BTW: Since the PIII's run in slightly older motherboards, it's > probably worth pointing out that a number of the Intel chipsets > are known to have problems with PCI bus master arbitration when > you have more than 2 PCI bus master devices in the box; the one > I definitely recognized as being a problem was the NX, but I had > also heard there were issues with the FX and the ServerWorks III, > as well. Checking "Tom's Hardware" is probably a good idea. I > didn't see this mentioned in any of the "Notes"/"Comment" sections. I can't add any informations about this problem, because I don't get these informations from the owners yet, sorry. If I get those sort of informations from the owners, I will add it, of course. -Gregor. -- Gregor.Bittel@GMX.de [1]= http://www.bnv-bamberg.de/home/ba3294/smp/index.htm
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