I'm not sure why either. I have used a pair of coppermine 550E's in a dual
configuration and am running them at 133mhz. Works just fine.
Cheers,
Chris
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From: "Mark Hahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Peter Penney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: hardware advice
> > Coppermine CPU's with this board? Also, is there any truth that the PIII
> > 500E and 550E Coppermine's do not support SMP? According to Intel, SMP
> > support will be available on the 600E and later CPU's
>
> I'm not sure why people say this. Intel's docs (datasheet, manuals)
> make no mention of such no-SMP chips. the current PIII spec update
> lists all PC-PGA chips as merely not [yet] validated for dual processing,
> but then again, that's almost certainly just a testing issue, since the
> new 1GHz version, in SECC2 format, also gets that annotation.
>
> regards, mark hahn.
>
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