On Tue, 2001-10-09 at 17:52, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Dieter Nützel wrote:
>
> > Has anybody some numbers, yet?
>
> I was under the impression that only the Athlon MP CPUs could be used in SMP
> systems, and the fastest one is still 1.2GHz.
It seems that any Athlon (even Durons) work fine in SMP configurations.
(Although I don't recommend this for stability).
Most people using dual Athlons are probably using the higher speed but
cheaper Athlon parts with no problem.
I have heard conflicting reports of what is actually different about the
MP vs non-MP parts, with points ranging from "the MP parts are just
certified" to that MP actually has some different internals. Whatever
the case, I suppose the difference isn't earth-shattering and mostly
marketing (ala Intel).
Robert Love
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Oct 15 2001 - 21:00:27 EST