From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Sep 27 20:40:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-smp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA00612 for smp-outgoing; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 20:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA00571 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 20:40:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA00517; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 20:39:25 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199609280339.UAA00517@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Adding a second CPU To: rmf@friley10.res.iastate.edu (Ric Flinn) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 20:39:25 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199609280326.WAA01286@friley10.res.iastate.edu> from "Ric Flinn" at Sep 27, 96 10:26:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I currently have an ASUS dual pentium motherboard with one pentium 90 cpu. > I would like to add a second cpu; what requirements does the second cpu > have to meet to be compatible with the first? WARNING: | Bill's problem, I think, is that he bought a dual-pentium motherboard... | and it turns out that the machine will only accept two processors if | they're both at the same stepping, and he can't run them at higher than | 120MHz (I think it was). When he bought the system, however, he asked | if he could just get a second processor, and they told him yes, even | though he was buying it with a 133MHz processor... It should probably be identical to the first processor. You should look at the Intel WWW site. Some Pentiums are not SMP capable. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.