> I'd go Athlon
>
> > Do you have pointers showing stability problems when using
> > XP processor in a multiprocessor context ?
>
> Remember the XP's haven't been tested in MP configurations (or
> tested and failed). The same was true of celerons and as most
> people found the fail rate was pretty low 8)
You have to bridge L5-4 on the newest XP CPUs though. My Tyan Tiger
boards' BIOS was giving me something like-
00Error
Failed
Turned out it needed those guys bridged up. It's not that difficult
though, I had a circuit pen lying about and just drew in a trace :).
(You don't have to fill the cracks like the overclock bridges)
Anyway, it was pretty easy, but I wouldn't suggest it for the faint
of heart. Running 2.4.18 happily now in dual config with no
stability problems. I have compiled the kernel a few times, compiled
Qt, all of KDE, xemacs, glibc, gcc, and a couple billion other things
that I can't remember right now. So, no stability problems with the
newest XPs and a hand closed L5-4 bridge. (So far anyway :) )
Thanks,
Shane Nay.
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