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Offline Oprime

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« Reply #25 on: April 23, 2004, 12:03:33 PM »
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The only difference between a Pentium 2 266 and a Celeron 300 is that it has a higher clock, has half the cache, and Dual mobo capabilitys has been disabled.

I know. But, to enable the dual thingy a processor hack is needed. You have to run a wire from a pin to another. I don't remember which ones it was.
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« Reply #26 on: April 24, 2004, 05:12:50 AM »
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The only difference between a Pentium 2 266 and a Celeron 300 is that it has a higher clock, has half the cache, and Dual mobo capabilitys has been disabled.

I know. But, to enable the dual thingy a processor hack is needed. You have to run a wire from a pin to another. I don't remember which ones it was.
Don't remember that......I think the main selling point of the board was it's ability to enable dual processors without any physical mods on the CPUs.
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« Reply #27 on: April 27, 2004, 02:39:00 PM »
The processor doesnt dictate whether multiple CPU's can be used.. that's determined by the mobo and the OS.

However some processors are designed to be more efficient when in a multiprocessor environment.... an early example is the Pentium Pro....

There is no real need for multiple processors in a Workstation class environment.... however if you're running a server that would need that... you wouldn't use Celeron anyway.... probably a more Server class CPU like the Pentium Xeon.

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« Reply #28 on: April 27, 2004, 07:33:27 PM »
The Pentium 2 266 is just a Pentium Pro/ Pentium MMX hybird CPU. So, because the secound generation celeron is just a faster version of the Pentium 2 266 it has Dual capabilities like the Pentium Pro. It's not as good as a Xeon, but then again I'm cheap :P and it's fun just to brag when a person has a Dual mobo  :lol:. Hmm, it seems we're getting off topic. I think it'll be kind of cool to have another forum just devoted to talking about hardware. I can see it now.... 1000's of hits per day and many new users who go to the site just to talk about hardware, but then they see that a great game is also being play'd every sunday in the sites very own chat room..... whoops difting off  :rolleyes:  
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« Reply #29 on: April 27, 2004, 08:50:54 PM »
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The processor doesnt dictate whether multiple CPU's can be used.. that's determined by the mobo and the OS.
I think you'll find that it does. For example, AthlonXPs can (or could) be modded to work in a dual CPU configuration (they normally wouldn't work by default - you needed an Athlon-MP).

Dual CPUs are largely useless for general desktop and gaming purposes. Sure is nice to brag about though. :)
« Last Edit: April 27, 2004, 08:53:33 PM by Coconut Monkey »
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