Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 17:21:41 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: bmcgover@cisco.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Athlon MP systems... Message-ID: <F70GymSx0LDGdyoOxg200015be7@hotmail.com>
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> > I'm curious if anyone has experience with using > > Athlon MP processors. I've > > been looking at picking up something like a Tyan > > S2460, and dropping a couple > > of Athlon MP 1600+ processors on it. > > > > I'm curious if anyone has had good/bad luck with it, > > and their source for > > the MP chips (everyone seems to be selling the MBs, > > Athlons, and the XP > > chips, but none of the major catalogs seem to stock > > the MP 1600+s). You can get them from websites like www.mwave.com under the section "AMD - ATHLON (SOCKET A)" (Not AthlonXP) By the way, the XPs work fine in SMP. The MPs are /guaranteed/ to work fine. Other than that (and the MPs are not clock locked, if you want to overclock for some reason) there is no physical difference. The TigerMP (S2460) seems stable enough. I did several "make -j 2 buildworld"'s at once and it never had the slightest hiccup. Note that you are better off getting single sided DIMMS, as Tyan recommends a max of 6 loads. (either three double sided DIMMS or any combination of double/single sided that equals 6 or less loads) Not that I have heard of any problems with having 8 loads (4 double sided DIMMS), but best to be safe... Charles Burns _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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