[ILUG] hardware question

[Liam Bedford]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:24:27AM +0100, HAMILTON,DAVID (HP-Ireland,ex2) came forth with:
> Other minor detail is that no AMD processor currently available in this
> country can be used in a SMP configuration.
welllll...

it's more "We won't say this will work" but various people have run 
multi processor of the bog standard Athlon..

that said, there's only one motherboard as you say, and it's mad
expensive (it's a Tyan server board, and comes in at $500, it has
AGP Pro, built in SCSI, dual ethernet, 64bit 66Mhz PCI etc... the
kinda thing every home user needs <g>)

> AMD have just released a special version of the Athlon called the MP which
> will be able to do this, but the last time I checked there was only one
> supported motherboard, and you do have to buy the special version CPUs. Not
> all CPUs shipped will be the MP variety.

according to various sources, cheaper boards will be available Q3, which
means sometime around christmas usually..

L.
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