From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 02:21:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F4AA37B401 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 02:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rambo.401.cx (rambo.401.cx [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5818E43F75 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 02:21:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (132.dairy.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.132]) by rambo.401.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6T9Lr7P083826; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:21:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <3F263CA7.4040605@401.cx> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:21:43 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030708 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd_deamon@gmx.net References: <27727.1059465900@www22.gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <27727.1059465900@www22.gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PIII SMP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:21:56 -0000 freebsd_deamon@gmx.net wrote: >dear list, > >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? > >thanks > Make sure the stepping is identical. Some motherboards require Tualatin's to be able to run dual, others will happily run even Celeron CPU's in smp. I personally run a Dell Poweredge 1500SC motherboard with two Tualatin 1.13GHz PIII's, and Ive had no problems at all with it. I also run a MSI 649D-Pro motherboard with two PIII 1Ghz (not Tualatin) which also works great, but performance wise it's no match for the dual Tualatin. I would say Tualatin's are youre best bet, they are a little expensive but they work great in dual systems, thats what they are designed for. Just make sure your motherboard can handle Tualatins. -- R