Hello, On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:44:46PM -0500 or thereabouts, Doug Poland wrote: > I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't > have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a > single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd like to purchase another CPU. Question > is, can I simply match another Xeon of the same speed and expect it to > work? If I need more info, will dmesg(8) tell me what I need to know?
well best for you will be to find information about your current CPU
which is in place, by using sysutils/dmidecode port which will tell
you what kind of CPU (frequency, L2 cache etc.) you have.
have a nice day,
Martin
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