On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Phil Edwards wrote:
> This probably isn't, strictly speaking, the right place to post this, but
> I trust the opinions and expertise of the people on this list more than
> the collective wisdom of most of Usenet.
>
> Now, having got your attention in the nicest possible way... :-)
>
> I'm planning to upgrade my machine at home this summer. It's currently
> running mdk-6.1 without any problems at all. My plan is to install an ABIT
> BP-6 motherboard and 2 Celeron 500 processors. I'm sure I've read
> somewhere that if I were to do this with (for example) dual Pentium II
> CPU's, I'd have to be careful to buy processors with the same stepping
> level (whatever that is - I just read it, I don't necessarily understand
> it!!) Does this apply to Celeron CPU's?
>
> Is anybody in here using a BP-6 motherboard? Any horror stories to tell,
> or even any praises to sing?
>
> As a relative 'newbie' as far as SMP is concerned, is there anything
> lurking in the shadows which might trip up the unwary?
>
> Thanks for your indulgence!
>
As Rich said you'll want chips from the same lot/batch. You may want todo
the same for your ram, for no better reason than i've got 4 semi identical
chips differing only by lot # that i can't intermix. Don't know if thats
the board the ram or bios revision, i didn't dig just said Hmpf and put it
back the way i had it..
I have two, love them to death. You can't beat them for SMP on the desktop
for under 600 dollors.
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