Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:25:13 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: John Stockdale <jstockdale@stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PIII SMP Message-ID: <3F28D269.C0CF1646@mindspring.com> References: <8BB9ECE3-C297-11D7-971A-000393A6EB58@stanford.edu>
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John Stockdale wrote: > Alright its been awhile since I bought PIIIs but I looked around ... > let me just be another person to first reiterate the need that both > processors be the exact same model, stepping, revision. This can be > verified by one of the spec codes on the box (I forget which one). > Different steppings = good chance that they won't work in a SMP setup. > Also a warning I came across from the page ( > http://www.intel.com/design/pentiumiii/prodbref/ > index.htm?iid=ipp_dlc_procp3p+prodb_p3p& ): BTW: let me point out: if you have a "Slot 1" board *DO NOT* get those "Slot 1 - to - Socket 370" adapters and try to get SMP to work with Socket 370's installed in the adapters on your Slot 1 board -- it's not going to work correctly for you, so if you were thinking about that, give up on the idea right now, and just buy a different motherboard, if you can't get a matched set of SMP-capable Slot 1's. -- Terryhelp
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