At 11:21 PM 11/5/98 -0500, Dale E. Martin wrote:
>"Robert M. Hyatt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Intel says "yes" but only in dual-processor configurations, not
>> quads. Leaves a lot of us holding the "bag"...
>
>Have you actually seen _any_ motherboard that will support this chip? Just
>curious. I have a Tyan S1668, and their web site says nothing about it. I
>emailed their tech support and got no answer. Tom's Hardware would lead me
>to believe that there needs to be some bios support for this chip to
>work...
Intel has got a decent OD support forum, and you could probably find an
answer there re: your Tyan board. I found out that my Compaq workstation
can't take the chip due to heat sink clearance problems.
>I guess it's not surprising that this chip won't work in a quad
>configuration, since it's a PII core, right? Or are there quad PIIs now?
Intel just says that they don't support it in >dual configurations; it may
or may not work. I think that they'd rather have those who need quad
configurations switch to Xeon boxes, while maintaining their promise that
they would, in fact, produce an OD for PPro boxes.
David M. Rose
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